At Freddie'S - Softcover

Fitzgerald, Penelope

3.57

1,003 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0395956188 ISBN 13: 9780395956182

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (Trade), 1999

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A novel centered around the Temple Stage School and its matriarch, Freddie Wentworth, focuses on the lives of child actors trained and represented by the school, in a novel appearing for the first time in a U.S. paperback edition. Reprint.

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Review:

‘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

‘A jewel of a book.’ Daily Mail

‘The wit is crisp and dry, scenes and characters are deftly skewered. Whether you view the theatre as a noble passion or a wasting disease, you are equally certain to be regaled.’ Guardian

‘Enjoy the knowingness of the awful children, the weary fumblings of the professional actors, the constant witticisms at the expense of pretentious directors. An enjoyable, sharp novel...a delicious refreshment.’ Margaret Forster

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From the reviews of At Freddie's
"The ability to pace herself with the finesse of an Olympic gold-medalist is something that Penelope Fitzgerald happily possesses...With At Freddie's she has both extended her territory and consolidated it. It is a true and strong work...Mrs Fitzgerald's evocation of the ephemerality of the theatre is immensely moving since, by implication, it is also an evocation of the ephemerality of life itself." Francis King

"Enjoy the knowingness of the awful children, the weary fumblings of the professional actors, the constant witticism at the expense of pretentious directors. An enjoyable, sharp novel...a delicious refreshment." Margaret Forster

The wit is crisp and dry, scenes and characters are deftly skewered...Whether you view the theatre as a noble passion or a wasting disease, you are equally certain to be regaled." Christopher Wordsworth, Guardian

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