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| Author: Penelope Fitzgerald |
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Mariner Books
ISBN-10: 0395956196
ISBN-13: 9780395956199
Buy.com Sku: 30493437
Publish Date: 4/10/2007
Pages:
192
Age Range:
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| This novel combines a deft comedy of manners with a classic mystery set in London's most refined institution--the museum. When the glittering treasure of the ancient golden child is delivered to the museum, a web of intrigue tightens around its personnel. |
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From the Publisher: Penelope Fitzgerald's first novel, THE GOLDEN CHILD, combines a deft comedy of manners with a classic mystery set in London's most refined institution -- the museum. When the glittering treasure of ancient Garamantia, the golden child, is delivered to the museum, a web of intrigue tightens around its personnel, especially the hapless museum officer Waring Smith. While prowling the halls one night, Waring is nearly strangled. Two suspicious deaths ensue, and only the cryptic hieroglyphics of the Garamantes can bring an end to the mayhem. Fitzgerald has an unerring eye for human nature, and this satirical look at the art world delivers a terrifically witty read. |
Author Bio
Penelope Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald's father was the editor of Punch, and she grew up in a lively, distinguished, and highly literary household. She received first-class honors at Oxford in 1939, was married in 1941, and had three children. She and her improvident, intermittently alcoholic husband lived in a succession of places that included an oyster warehouse, a seaside artists' colony, a houseboat on the Thames (which sank), and public housing. Over the course of 30 years, she held a variety of undistinguished jobs while she was raising her children, including one "carrying records about" at the BBC. As one of her daughters put it, "Many of the instances in her books are about people managing and coping and making do, and that comes from her own life." Fitzgerald wrote biographies, but she was most celebrated for her short, demanding, increasingly spare, and often autobiographical novels, which she did not begin publishing until she was 60. She began writing only when her own writer-father was dead and her husband was dying of cancer; she wrote, she said, "to divert him." Her 1980 novel, OFFSHORE, won the Booker Prize. Fitzgerald died at the age of 83, with her career in full bloom.
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