A House of Air: Selected Writings
by Penelope Fitzgerald
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0007136420
- ISBN 13
- 9780007136421
- Seller
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Glebe, New South Wales, Australia
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
2003
Flamingo,
Edited by Terence Dooley with Mandy Kirkby and Chris Carduff,
Introduction by Hermione Lee
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Gentlest wear on edges of dust jacket,
Lightest spotting along page edges,
Book in excellent condition
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Selected writings on books, art, literature, and notable thinkers
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552 pages, 223mm x 143mm x 52mm
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100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW
Synopsis
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.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Library Kit (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- TLK479
- Title
- A House of Air
- Author
- Penelope Fitzgerald
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0007136420
- ISBN 13
- 9780007136421
- Publisher
- Flamingo
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- November 3, 2003
- Bookseller catalogs
- Essays / Memoirs;
Terms of Sale
The Library Kit
About the Seller
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100% of book sales goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW ($2,110.30 donated as of 9th May, 2024)
Postage-free pick-up available in and around Camperdown/Darlington area. Email thelibrarykit@gmail.com with preferences.
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