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.
李曾为维吉尼亚·伍尔夫(Virginia Woolf)、薇拉·卡特(Willa Cather)与伊迪丝·沃顿(Edith Wharton)写过精彩的传记，这一次亦出色地捕捉了难以捉摸、另辟蹊径的英国小说家与传记作家佩妮洛普·菲茨杰拉德的人生与时代。菲茨杰拉德从小浸淫文学，人生饱经沧桑，直至58岁才发表第一部作品，80岁才成名。她的小说压抑凝练，仿佛几十年的等待都成为清澈透明的魔法。 来源:可可英语 //m.moreplr.com/read/201412/348761.shtml