The life and times of that elusive, original miracle worker, the English novelist and biographer Penelope Fitzgerald, have been brilliantly captured by Lee, previously the author of masterly portraits of Virginia Woolf, Willa Cather and Edith Wharton. Growing up steeped in literature but sidetracked by the vicissitudes of life, Fitzgerald published her first book at 58 and did not become famous until she was 80. But her fiction, when it finally emerged, had a tamped-down force and intense compression, as if the decades-long wait had worked its own clarifying, crystallizing magic.
李曾為維吉尼亞·伍爾夫(Virginia Woolf)、薇拉·卡特(Willa Cather)與伊迪絲·沃頓(Edith Wharton)寫過精彩的傳記，這一次亦出色地捕捉了難以捉摸、另辟蹊徑的英國小說家與傳記作家佩妮洛普·菲茨杰拉德的人生與時代。菲茨杰拉德從小浸淫文學，人生飽經滄桑，直至58歲才發表第一部作品，80歲才成名。她的小說壓抑凝練，仿佛幾十年的等待都成為清澈透明的魔法。 來源:可可英語 http://www.ccdyzl.cn/read/201412/348761.shtml