The Afterlife (Magill’s Literary Annual 2004)
At a glance:
- Author: Penelope Fitzgerald
- First Published: 2003
- Type of Work: Essays
- Genres: Nonfiction, Essays
- Subjects: Authors or writers, Literature, Poetry or poets, Novelists, Women
The Afterlife is a collection of essays and reviews by Penelope Fitzgerald published after her death in 2000. The essays are usually short, many being only a page or so, and deal primarily with novels and novelists. Fitzgerald was a novelist who began her career at the age of sixty with the publication of The Golden Child in 1977, although she was a reviewer and contributor of essays to a number of important journals for most of her adult life. The Afterlife was edited by Terrence Dooley, Fitzgerald’s son-in-law and literary executor. The editor has chosen the...
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