The Means of Escape: Stories
Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine / Fine. Item #2355119
ISBN: 9780618079940
First edition. An exceptional copy. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked.
117 pp. With the death of Penelope Fitzgerald, the literary world lost one of its finest, most original, and most beloved authors. Fitzgerald began her writing career at age sixty and wrote eight remarkable novels in rapid succession over the next twenty years. Completed just before her death, THE MEANS OF ESCAPE is Fitzgerald's first new book since the best-selling THE BLUE FLOWER. Never before have her short stories been collected in book form, and none of them has ever appeared in the United States. THE MEANS OF ESCAPE showcases this incomparable author at her most intelligent, her funniest, her best. Like her novels, these brilliant stories are miniature studies of the endless absurdity of human behavior. Concise, comic, biting, and mischievous, they are vintage Fitzgerald.
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