Penelope Fitzgerald

Human Voices (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

The human voices of Penelope Fitzgerald's novel are those of the BBC in the first years of the Second World War, the time when the Concert Hall was turned into a dormitory for both sexes, the whole building became a target for enemy bombers, and in the BBC as elsewhere, some had to fail and some had to die. It does not pretend to be an accurate history of Broadcasting House in those years, but 'one is left with the sensation', as William Boyd said reviewing it in the 'London Magazine', 'that this is what it was really like'.

"One of the pleasures of reading Penelope Fitzgerald is the unpredictability of her intelligence, which never loses its quality, but springs constant surprises, and if you make the mistake of reading her fast because she is so readable, you will miss some of the best jokes. I wish it were longer ... for it is certainly a very funny novel about the BBC, and that in itself is an occasion for joy."
MICHAEL RATCLIFFE, 'The Times'

"A delightfully whimsical account of life in Portland Place during the London blitz ... there are some very funny passages, and delicious insights into the quirkiness of human behaviour under stress."
NINA BAWDEN, 'Daily Telegraph'

"It is hard to describe the peculiar quality of Penelope Fitzgerald's gift. 'Human Voices' is comic, and sometimes extraordinarily sad ... I enjoyed it very much."
A.S. BYATT, 'Times Literary Supplement'

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780007373819
• Artikelnr.: 38062435

Autorenporträt

Penelope Fitzgerald was the author of nine novels, three of which - The Bookshop, The Beginning of Spring and The Gate of Angels - were shortlisted for the Booker. She won the prize in 1979 for Offshore. A superb biographer and critic, she was also the author of lives of the artist Burne-Jones, the poet Charlotte Mew and The Knox Brothers, a study of her remarkable family.
She died in 2000.