{"product_id":"the-afterlife-paperback-by-penelope-fitzgerald","title":"The Afterlife Paperback by Penelope Fitzgerald","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n                \n                    \n                        \u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n                        \u003cul\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cb\u003eCounterpoint\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e(2004-09-22)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003eEnglish\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e418\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003epages\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e9781582433202\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eItem Weight\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e368.55\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003egrams\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003ecm\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                        \u003c\/ul\u003e\n                        \u003cbr\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA posthumous collection of literary essays explores the \"afterlife\" of the writing community, defined as a legacy experienced in the minds and hearts of their readers; in a volume that includes introductions to major works of literature, reviews of fellow authors, and explorations of lesser-known writers.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the late novelist and biographer Penelope Fitzgerald, a collection of essays-almost all of them unknown to her countless American admirers-on books, travel, and her own life and work. A good book, wrote John Milton, is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. In this generous posthumous collection of her literary essays and reviews, Penelope Fitzgerald celebrates the life beyond life of dozens of master-spirits--their afterlife not only in the pages of their works but in the minds of their readers, critics, and biographers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere are Fitzgerald's brilliant introductions to the classics--Jane Austen's \u003ci\u003eEmma\u003c\/i\u003e, George Eliot's \u003ci\u003eMiddlemarch\u003c\/i\u003e, the works of \u003ci\u003eMrs. Oliphant\u003c\/i\u003e--as well as considerations of recent novels by Barbara Pym, Carol Shields, Roddy Doyle, and Amy Tan. Here too are reviews of several late-twentieth-century literary biographies, including Richard Holmes's Coleridge, A. N. Wilson's C. S. Lewis, and Martin Stannard's Evelyn Waugh-reviews that together form a memorable criticism both of life and the art of life-writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                        \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePenelope Fitzgerald\u003c\/b\u003e (1918-2000) is the author of nine novels, three works of biography, and a posthumously published collection of short fiction. \u003ci\u003eThe Blue Flower\u003c\/i\u003e won the NBCC Award for Fiction and was chosen by the editors of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e as one of the eleven best books of 1997. \u003ci\u003eOffshore\u003c\/i\u003e won the Booker Prize, and three of her other novels have made the Booker short list. For almost all her life she lived in London.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTerence Dooley\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet and the literary executor of the Estate of Penelope Fitzgerald. He lives with his wife, Penelope Fitzgerald's older daughter Tina, in Cornwall, England.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMandy Kirkby\u003c\/b\u003e is an editor at Flamingo, an imprint of HarperCollins UK. She lives in London.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                    \n                \n            \u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Best Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":46555808923809,"sku":"BBSNIJ9781582433202","price":24.7,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/2084\/5473\/files\/9781582433202_20cb2bcd-1364-4d1c-9d58-7fc512d9c00e.jpg?v=1781797190","url":"https:\/\/www.bestbookstore.ca\/products\/the-afterlife-paperback-by-penelope-fitzgerald","provider":"Best Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}