The Means of Escape
- List Price: $18.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Edition: 1
- Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
- Publish date: 09/01/2000
Description:
With more than 300,000 copies of her novels in print, Penelope Fitzgerald is at the height of her career. The astounding success of these books has prompted major profiles in both the New York Times Magazine and The New Yorker, which called her "a modern classic". Never before have her short stories been collected in book form, and none of them has ever appeared in the States. Like her best-selling novels, these brilliant stories are miniature studies of the endless absurdity of human behavior, seen through the author's generous but unwavering moral gaze. Concise, comic, biting, and mischievous, they are vintage Fitzgerald.
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Roaming the globe and the ages, the stories in The Means of Escape travel from England to France to New Zealand and from today to the seventeenth century. Uniting them is a universal theme: the shifting balance between those who are in positions of power -- by wealth, status, or class -- and those who, deceptively, are not. Each story features a twist in plot that is as surprising as it is inevitable and satisfying.
This hardcover publication is Fitzgerald's first new book since the hugely successful The Blue Flower. The stories in The Means of Escape showcase Penelope Fitzgerald at her most intelligent, her funniest, her best.
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