The Beginning of Spring [electronic resource]
Fitzgerald, Penelope2013
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From the Booker Prize-winning author of 'Offshore', 'The Blue Flower' and 'Innocence' comes this Booker Prize-shortlisted tale of a troubled Moscow printworks . Frank Reid had been born and brought up in Moscow. His father had emigrated there in the 1870s and started a print-works which, by 1913, had shrunk from what it was when Frank inherited it. In that same year, to add to his troubles, Frank's wife Nellie caught the train back home to England, without explanation. How is a reasonable man like Frank to cope? How should he keep his house running? Should he consult the Anglican chaplain's wife? Should he listen to the Tolstoyan advice of his chief book-keeper? How do people live together, and what happens when, sometimes, they don't?
Main title:
The Beginning of Spring [electronic resource] / Penelope Fitzgerald
Author:
Fitzgerald, Penelope, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : HarperCollins Publishers, 2013
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
System details:
Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
Penelope Fitzgerald was one of the most distinctive voices in British literature. The prize-winning author of nine novels, three biographies and one collection of short stories, she died in 2000.
ISBN:
9780007370092
Language:
English
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BRN:
2794436
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