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Автор: Penelope Fitzgerald
Издательство: HarperCollins
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isbn: 9780007378753
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       Dedication

      In memory of

      THE POETRY BOOKSHOP

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       6: The China Bowl

       7: Nunhead and St Gildas

       8: Rue Chateaubriand

       9: The Quiet House

       10: The Farmer’s Bride

       11: Mrs Sappho

       12: May Sinclair

       13: ‘Never Confess’

       14: The Poetry Bookshop

       15: Alida

       16: ‘J’ai passé par là’

       17: Sydney

       18: The Shade-Catchers

       19: Delancey Street

       20: The Loss of a Mother

       21: The Loss of a Sister

       22: Fin de Fête

       Selected Poems of Charlotte Mew

       The Farmer’s Bride

       In Nunhead Cemetery

       The Changeling

       Ken

       A Quoi Bon Dire

       The Quiet House

       Madeleine in Church

       The Shade-Catchers

       Saturday Market

       Sea Love

       From a Window

       Not for that City

       Fin de Fête

       I so liked Spring

       The Trees Are Down

       Appendix: A Note on the Poetry Bookshop Rhyme Sheets

       Select Bibliography

       Index

       Acknowledgements

       Notes and References

       Also by the Author

       Copyright

       About the Publisher

       Penelope Fitzgerald

      Preface by Hermione Lee, Advisory Editor

      When Penelope Fitzgerald unexpectedly won the Booker Prize with Offshore, in 1979, at the age of sixty-three, she said to her friends: ‘I knew I was an outsider.’ The people she wrote about in her novels and biographies were outsiders, too: misfits, romantic artists, hopeful failures, misunderstood lovers, orphans and oddities. She was drawn to unsettled characters who lived on the edges. She wrote about the vulnerable and the unprivileged, children, women trying to cope on their own, gentle, muddled, unsuccessful men. Her view of the world was that it divided into ‘exterminators’ and ‘exterminatees’. She would say: ‘I am drawn to people who seem to have been born defeated or even profoundly lost.’ She was a humorous writer with a tragic sense of life.

      Outsiders