{"product_id":"the-afterlife-isbn-9781582433202","title":"The Afterlife","description":"\u003cb\u003eA posthumous collection of literary essays explores the \"afterlife\" of the writing community, defined as a legacy experienced in the minds and hearts of their readers; in a volume that includes introductions to major works of literature, reviews of fellow authors, and explorations of lesser-known writers.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere are Fitzgerald's brilliant introductions to the classics--Jane Austen's \u003ci\u003eEmma\u003c\/i\u003e, George Eliot's \u003ci\u003eMiddlemarch\u003c\/i\u003e, the works of \u003ci\u003eMrs. Oliphant\u003c\/i\u003e--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.\"A great and welcome treasure for the Fitzgerald devotee.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Fitzgerald fans searching for clues about this master of reticence would do well to look here.\" --\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"She achieves the best in first-person erasure.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Village Voice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Treating serious things gracefully is also the hallmark of Penelope Fitzgerald and of this fine collection.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Unusually intelligent and sensitively selected collection of her criticism.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMandy Kirkby\u003c\/b\u003e is an editor at Flamingo, an imprint of HarperCollins UK. She lives in London.","brand":"Counterpoint","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304593248485,"sku":"NP9781582433202","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781582433202.jpg?v=1767738025","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-afterlife-isbn-9781582433202","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}