![]() ![]() The typical Fitzgerald protagonist is an innocent who is fed into these systems, pitting his or her own surprising resources of courage and determination against the equally surprising eccentricity - shading into monstrosity - of Many of them make comedies of institutions: the British Museum, drama school, the BBC, an East Anglian village (although her village is more a machine infernale than an institution). Her first five novels are all set in England, in the present or the recent past. She had written a couple of biographies and, as she amiably stresses in biographical notes and interviews, brought up three children. She had a varied professional life before she took up novels. Since then, three of her nine novels have been short-listed for the Booker Prize in England, and her ''Offshore'' won the PENELOPE FITZGERALD'S first novel was published in 1977, when she was already 60. ![]() The New York Times: Book Review Search Article ![]()
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