{"product_id":"the-afterlife-paperback-2","title":"The Afterlife - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePenelope Fitzgerald\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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. Here are Fitzgerald's brilliant introductions to the classics-Jane Austen's Emma, George Eliot's Middlemarch, the works of Mrs. Oliphant-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. And here especially are extended explorations of minor figures, the creators of modest, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMandy Kirkby\u003c\/b\u003e is an editor at Flamingo, an imprint of HarperCollins UK. She lives in London.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 393\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.08 x 9.14 x 6.44 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 22, 2004\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47332891459833,"sku":"9781582433202","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/SXRHTjJZSzlta1dWT281dkFxWll4Zz09_98af8684-d083-4b76-b3ae-a75c2f541f9b.webp?v=1769634732","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-afterlife-paperback-2","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}