The bookshop ; The gate of angels ; The blue flower (Everyman's library (Alfred A Knopf Inc))
Summary
"'The Bookshop' is a postwar tragicomedy of manners, set in an isolated seaside town where an enterprising woman opens a bookstore only to find it beset by poltergeists, weather, and hostile townsfolk. 'The Gate of Angels' is an Edwardian romance within a novel of ideas: a young doctor devoted to sc... Full description
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"'The Bookshop' is a postwar tragicomedy of manners, set in an isolated seaside town where an enterprising woman opens a bookstore only to find it beset by poltergeists, weather, and hostile townsfolk. 'The Gate of Angels' is an Edwardian romance within a novel of ideas: a young doctor devoted to science and to his all-male Cambridge college finds his life and views disrupted by a nurse named Daisy. 'The Blue Flower,' which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, revitalizes historical drama through the story of Novalis, an eighteenth-century German romantic poet and visionary genius, and his unlikely love affair with a simple child-woman. These three novels all display Fitzgerald's characteristic wit, intellectual breadth, and narrative brilliance, applied to an array of traditional forms into which she breathed new life."--Book jacket. |
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Item Description: |
"This is a Borzoi Book"--Title page verso. |
Physical Description: |
xxxiii, 472 pages ; 22 cm. |
ISBN: |
1400041260 9781400041268 1857152476 9781857152470 |
Author Notes: |
Penelope Fitzgerald lives in England. (Bowker Author Biography) |