Fiztgerald is a deft and nimble writer...[who] displays the
English gift for understatement. Her apt phrases are tossed off
casually; her humor is flicked at us airily. [At Freddie''s] is
intriguing to the end.
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Penelope Fitzgerald wrote many books small in size but
enormous in popular and critical acclaim over the past two decades.
Over 300,000 copies of her novels are in print, and profiles of her
life appeared in both The New Yorker and The New York Times
Magazine. In 1979, her novel OFFSHORE won Britain''s Booker Prize,
and in 1998 she won the National Book Critics Circle Prize for THE
BLUE FLOWER. Though Fitzgerald embarked on her literary career when
she was in her 60''s, her career was praised as "the best argument..
for a publishing debut made late in life" New York Times Book
Review. She told the New York Times Magazine, "In all that time, I
could have written books and I didn''t. I think you can write at any
time of your life." Dinitia Smith, in her New York Times Obituary
of May 3, 2000, quoted Penelope Fitzgerald from 1998 as saying, "I
have remained true to my deepest convictions, I mean to the courage
of those who are born to be defeated, the weaknesses of the strong,
and the tragedy of misunderstandings and missed opportunities,
which I have done my best to treat as comedy, for otherwise how can
we manage to bear it?"