Human Voices - Softcover

Fitzgerald, Penelope

Softcover

ISBN 10: 039595617X ISBN 13: 9780395956175

Verlag: Houghton Mifflin (Trade), 1999

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Book by Fitzgerald Penelope

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Reseña del editor:

In the height of enemy bombing during World War II, a series of human dramas unfolds as the BBC transforms its concert hall into a dormitory for men and women, conflict erupts between two departmental directors, and sixteen-year-old Annie falls hopelessly in love. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.

Biografía del autor:

Penelope Fitzgerald wrote many books small in size but enormous in popular and critical acclaim over the past two decades. Over 300,000 copies of her novels are in print, and profiles of her life appeared in both The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine. In 1979, her novel OFFSHORE won Britain's Booker Prize, and in 1998 she won the National Book Critics Circle Prize for THE BLUE FLOWER.

Though Fitzgerald embarked on her literary career when she was in her 60's, her career was praised as "the best argument.. for a publishing debut made late in life" (New York Times Book Review). She told the New York Times Magazine, "In all that time, I could have written books and I didn’t. I think you can write at any time of your life."

Dinitia Smith, in her New York Times Obituary of May 3, 2000, quoted Penelope Fitzgerald from 1998 as saying, "I have remained true to my deepest convictions, I mean to the courage of those who are born to be defeated, the weaknesses of the strong, and the tragedy of misunderstandings and missed opportunities, which I have done my best to treat as comedy, for otherwise how can we manage to bear it?"

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• Verlag: Houghton Mifflin (Trade)
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 039595617X
• ISBN 13: 9780395956175
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 143