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‘Reading a Penelope Fitzgerald novel is like being taken for a ride in a peculiar kind of car. Everything is of top quality – the engine, the coachwork and the interior all fill you with confidence. Then, after a mile or so, someone throws the steering-wheel out of the window.’ Sebastian Faulks
‘Wise and ironic, funny and humane, Fitzgerald is a wonderful, wonderful writer.’ David Nicholls
‘Penelope Fitzgerald’s Innocence seems to me to be about real people undergoing real experiences, more real and more interesting than most biographies, and it carries absolute conviction as to time and place. What more could one ask of a novel?’ Spectator Books of the Year
‘Innocence weilds a curious fascination, replete with the sense of sleepy, slightly anxious fatalism that pervades much of the Italian cinema of the period. Its magic, and its message, are as oblique and inconclusive as the lives of its characters, but both have a lingering power, refreshingly fictive, deliciously un-English.’ Literary Review
‘I know of no one who expresses so deftly and entertainingly the way in which life seldom turns out as expected. A wonderful book.’ Spectator
‘This is by far the fullest and richest of Penelope Fitzgerald’s novels, and also the most ambitious. Her writing, as ever, has a natural authority, is very funny, warm and gently ironic, and full of tenderness towards human beings and their bravery in living.’ TLS
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.01. Seller Inventory # G0002231050I3N10
Book Description Paperback. Condition: Fair. A novel, set in Italy after World War II, about the problems and difficulties of trying to make other people happy. Originally published in 1986. From the author of THE GOLDEN CHILD, THE BEGINNING OF SPRING, THE GATE OF ANGELS and THE BLUE FLOWER. A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration. Seller Inventory # GOR006216049
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. Seller Inventory # SONG0002231050
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good +. First Edition. 224 p. 22 cm. Brown cloth in dustjacket. Front flap price clipped. Spine sunned. A little dust to top edge. Seller Inventory # 132978
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st impression, 1986. Spine of dust wrapper slightly "sunned", otherwise all fine. Seller Inventory # 000216
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Brown Boards with gilt titles to spine, 220 x 145 mm approx. 224 pp. First Edition 1st printing 1986.Novel set in 1950's Italy by a Booker Prize winning author. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. As New / Near Fine (Book- no previous owner name or insc. No faults. Dust Jacket - non price clipped cover £9.95, slight fading to spine. No other notable defects. Supplied in a removable proprietary protective sleeve). Seller Inventory # 127501
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover with dust-jacket.First impression.Spine ends of book mildly bruised.No foxing or tanning.No inscriptions.Light creasing to dust-jacket top edge.Spine faded and price clipped.Generally good to very good. Seller Inventory # 001226
Book Description First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; [224]p ; 14cm. Subjects; Young women Italy Florence Fiction. Upper class Italy Florence Fiction. Physicians Italy Florence Fiction. Fiction in English 1945 Texts. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 369889
Book Description First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; [224]p ; 14cm. Subjects; Young women Italy Florence Fiction. Upper class Italy Florence Fiction. Physicians Italy Florence Fiction. Fiction in English 1945 Texts. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 369889
Book Description Original Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Boards have two small dents in the bottom edge of the rear panel. Very slight marking to page edges but pages otherwise clean and unmarked. The jacket has fading to the spine and slight edge and surface wear. First printing. Seller Inventory # 012491