Saturday, July 26, 2008

Julian Barnes remembers Penelope Fitzgerald

"She was an accident-prone grandmother, who fitted writing into the gaps in family life, and her first publisher dismissed her as 'an amateur writer'. But she became the best English novelist of her time. Julian Barnes pays tribute to Penelope Fitzgerald" More


I discovered her only recently and read Offshore and the much better The Blue Flower back to back. I have a copy of The Bookshop that I have yet to get around to. This article is nudging me toward the bookshelf.

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