A House of Air (Paperback, New Ed)

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HERMIONE LEE The previously uncollected occasional prose of a great English writer - full of wit, feeling and illumination. Penelope Fitzgerald was a prolific letter writer. She avoided the phone if she could, never even contemplated the possibility of going online. Her warmth, humour and supreme storytelling abilities found their best forum here. Surprising, wonderfully funny, definitive, this is a major collection of Penelope Fitzgerald's reviews, essays and autobiographical writings. This collection includes pieces on contemporary novelists Giles Foden, Anne Enright, Carol Shields, Rose Tremain, Roddy Doyle; on classic writers Muriel Spark, A.E. Housman, Rose Macaulay, M.R. James, Stevie Smith, Dorothy L. Sayers; on remembering her grandfather E.H. Shepard; on her love of Devon and Spain and William Morris: on writers in their old age; and witty and poignant recollections of her schooldays, her life on a Thames barge, her childhood in Hampstead and the ghost who lived next door but one. This is a fantastically funny book - as much of an entertainment as the Kingsley Amis letters.

General

Imprint:	HarperPerennial
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 2005
Authors:	Penelope Fitzgerald
Introduction by:	Hermione Lee
Dimensions:	197 x 130 x 37mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	552
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-00-713643-8
Categories:	Books > Fiction > Special features > Short stories
LSN:	0-00-713643-9
Barcode:	9780007136438

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