Bibliograph

The Gate of Angels, Penelope Fitzgerald

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The Gate of Angels, Penelope Fitzgerald

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The Gate of Angels

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Penelope Fitzgerald

Summary

From the Booker Prize-winning author of 'Offshore' and 'the Blue Flower' - this Booker Prize-shortlisted novel centers on Cambridge Fellow Fred Fairly's search for a rational riposte to love. In 1912 Fred Fairly is a Junior Fellow at the college of St Angelicus in Cambridge, where for centuries no female, not even a pussy cat, has been allowed to set foot ("though the starlings couldn't altogether be regulated"). Fred lectures in physics and the questionable nature of matter and worries about the universal problem known in Cambridge at the time as 'the absurdity of the Mind-Body Relationship'. To Fred this is tormenting rather than absurd. The young woman beside him when he wakes up one evening in the Wrayburns' spare bedroom might help resolve it, but how can he tell if she is quite what she seems? Fred is a scientist. To him the truth should be everything, and indeed he thinks it is. But scientists make mistakes. The Gate of Angels is a funny, touching and inspiring look at male-female relationships and the problems caused by thinking just a little too much

Target audience

adult

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