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The Book Shop by Penelope Fitzgerald

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Name: Penelope Fitzgerald
Variant Name: Penelope (Mary Knox) Fitzgerald, Penelope Mary Fitzgerald, Penelope (Mary) Fitzgerald
Birth Date: December 17, 1916
Nationality: British
Gender: Female

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Biography of Penelope Fitzgerald
5097 words, approx. 17 pages
Penelope Fitzgerald's novels are described by Frank Kermode in the London Review of Books as "the kind of fiction in which perfection is almost to be hoped for." Louis B. Jones, in The New York Times Book Review (1 March 1992), places Fitzgerald firmly i...
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Biography of Penelope Fitzgerald
3847 words, approx. 12.8 pages
From virtually the outset of her career as a novelist, Penelope Fitzgerald's work has attracted serious critical attention. Her second novel, The Bookshop (1978), was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, which is Britain's most valuable literary award, wort...


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The Antioch Review
The Book Shop.
03/22/1998: 349 words, approx. 1 pages
The Book Shop by Penelope Fitzgerald. Mariner/Houghton Mifflin, 123 pp., $10.00 (paper). In 55 short chapters, with an afterword, The Blue Flower tells of the short life and love of the once widely read (in Germany) philosopher and poet Novalis (1772-1801). In 1798 Friedrich...
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The Washington Post
Shopping By the Book
12/27/1988: 478 words, approx. 2 pages
Take even a cursory glance at the financial pages these days, and it seems the business of America is stuffing cash into the pockets of its businessmen. Nabisco president F. Ross Johnson, with his hypothetical $2.6 billion takeover profit and very real $30 million...


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