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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...

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...

Angels are not rare. Some are in the Bible, which, while naming only three of them -- Raphael, the archangel who traveled with Tobias, and Gabriel, the messenger, and Michael, the sword of the Lord -- speaks of myriads more. "There were ten...

In mid-1992, Laurie Gates stared into the toothy jaws of recession, paused a bit, and then plunked down $435,000 of his own money, a good chunk of savings accumulated over his lifetime of 42 years. Moreover, he bet his wad on a...