{"product_id":"the-afterlife-9781582433202","title":"The Afterlife","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the late novelist and biographer Penelope Fitzgerald, a collection of essays-almost all of them unknown to her countless American admirers-on books, travel, and her own life and work.. A good book, wrote John Milton, is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. In this generous posthumous collection of her literary essays and reviews, Penelope Fitzgerald celebrates the life beyond life of dozens of master-spirits--their afterlife not only in the pages of their works but in the minds of their readers, critics, and biographers. Here are Fitzgerald's brilliant introductions to the classics-Jane Austen's Emma, George Eliot's Middlemarch, the works of Mrs. Oliphant-as well as considerations of recent novels by Barbara Pym, Carol Shields, Roddy Doyle, and Amy Tan. Here too are reviews of several late-twentieth-century literary biographies, including Richard Holmes's Coleridge, A. N. Wilson's C. S. Lewis, and Martin Stannard's Evelyn Waugh-reviews that together form a memorable criticism both of life and the art of life-writing. And here especially are extended explorations of minor figures, the creators of modest, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePenelope Fitzgerald\u003c\/b\u003e (1918-2000) is the author of nine novels, three works of biography, and a posthumously published collection of short fiction. \u003ci\u003eThe Blue Flower\u003c\/i\u003e won the NBCC Award for Fiction and was chosen by the editors of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e as one of the eleven best books of 1997. \u003ci\u003eOffshore\u003c\/i\u003e won the Booker Prize, and three of her other novels have made the Booker short list. For almost all her life she lived in London. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eTerence Dooley\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet and the literary executor of the Estate of Penelope Fitzgerald. He lives with his wife, Penelope Fitzgerald's older daughter Tina, in Cornwall, England. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMandy Kirkby\u003c\/b\u003e is an editor at Flamingo, an imprint of HarperCollins UK. She lives in London.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Catapult","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50420661518610,"sku":"9781582433202","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_32970e9c-3b49-475b-be0e-a8df31c5527e.jpg?v=1729495840","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-afterlife-9781582433202","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}