Penelope Lively, Author Grove/Atlantic $19.95 (323p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1156-2
In the course of ``At the Pitt-Rivers,'' one of 34 stories in this outstanding collection by the Booker Prize-winning author, a character reflects that just looking at a chance-met girl made you feel ``a bit like you were joining in how she felt.''...
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Penelope Lively. Viking, $26.95 (234p) ISBN 978-0-670-01655-6
At 80, Lively, celebrated British novelist and author (How It All Began), examines in five essays the many appealing and noteworthy facets of old age with her expert observer’s eye and eloquent touch. With the aged literally inheriting the earth in...
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Penelope Lively. Viking, $26.95 (232p) ISBN 978-0-670-02344-8
Charlotte, who is in her 70s, is mugged, leaving her injured and without her handbag. This delightful, absorbing novel relies on a sophisticated and skillfully realized structure to introduce and then follow its endearingly ordinary characters....
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Penelope Lively, Author HarperCollins Publishers $22 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-017476-7
Lively (Moon Tiger) considers the bliss of romantic love, and its frequently tragic disillusionment, in her 11th satisfying novel, which provides further evidence of her ability to build a fascinating plot from minutely observed character. Ensconced
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Penelope Lively, Author HarperCollins Publishers $20 (133p) ISBN 978-0-06-017106-3
Lively, the Booker prize-winning British author of Moon Tiger , here recalls her childhood in Egypt from the mid-1930s until her parents divorced in 1945 when she was 12. This intriguing memoir of growing up in another culture relies on Lively's...
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Penelope Lively, Author HarperCollins Publishers $20 (281p) ISBN 978-0-06-016667-0
Surely this authoritatively controlled, highly accomplished novel, British author Lively's 10th (her Moon Tiger won the Booker), will increase her audience of discriminating readers here. Written with grace and clarity, and luminous with insights...
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Penelope Lively, Author Grove/Atlantic $17.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1134-0
Lively's growing audience of discriminating readers will welcome the belated U.S. publication of her first novel, issued in England in 1977. This quiet but moving book betrays few earmarks of the neophyte: Lively's economical yet evocative use of...
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Penelope Lively, Author Grove/Atlantic $17.95 (210p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1155-5
Greystones is a moldy, drafty house of no great distinction located in the equally nondescript English town of Spaxton. The domineering and cantankerous Dorothy Glover has finally passed away, leaving her middle-aged progeny, Helen and Edward, to...
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Penelope Lively, Author . Grove $23 (225p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1712-0
Using "the furnishings of a house as a mnemonic system," Lively (Moon Tiger) takes readers on an imaginary tour of Golsoncott, the Edwardian country house her grandparents bought in 1923, home to several generations of her family. She...
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Penelope Lively, Author Beaufort Books $14.95 (217p) ISBN 978-0-8253-0311-1
Despite its title, the book isn't gospel, nor does its eponymous hero invoke any power higher than middle age for his infatuation with Carrie Summers, the papers of whose renowned grandfather he is researching for a biography. Carrie, a charming,...
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Penelope Lively, Author HarperCollins Publishers $22 (218p) ISBN 978-0-06-019233-4
While Lively's novels always reflect the ironies that life delivers to people looking elsewhere at the time, their insights generally occur in subtle, satisfying observations about society and human nature. Here again she writes of a woman whose...
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Penelope Lively, Author Fjord Press $12 (0p) ISBN 978-0-940242-73-9
The 14 straightforwardly written, deceptively simple stories in Booker Prize winner Lively's (Moon Tiger) new collection wring a frisson of surprise out of situations featuring mild-mannered, devotedly ""ordinary"" people. A woman on an idyllic...
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Penelope Lively, Author Harper Perennial $11 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-092216-0
London architect Matthew Halland recovers from a traumatic divorce and muses about the nature of time in Booker Prize winner Lively's ( Moon Tiger ) elegant and satisfying novel. (Aug.)
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Penelope Lively, Author HarperCollins Publishers $20 (231p) ISBN 978-0-06-016666-3
In the title of Booker Prize winner Lively's ( Moon Tiger ) intelligent, elegantly expressed and deeply satisfying new novel, the city is London and the mind that of architect Matthew Halland, whose keen eye and sentient imagination bring him to...
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Penelope Lively, Author . Viking $25.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-670-02124-6
Employing her trademark skill at honing detail and dialogue, Lively (Moon Tiger
) delivers a vigorous new novel revolving around a house outside of London, the sprawling Edwardian homestead of Allersmead, and the family of six children who grew up...
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Penelope Lively, Author . Viking $24.95 (258p) ISBN 978-0-670-03856-5
Booker and Whitbread prize–winner Lively begins her 14th novel, a multigenerational love story, in a London park in 1935, ends it nearly 70 years later after covering several lifetimes of love and heartbreak. The story starts when Lorna...
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Penelope Lively, Author . Viking $24.95 (215p) ISBN 978-0-670-03447-5
In this engrossing, perverse challenge to genre—"an anti-memoir"—Booker Award novelist Lively (Moon Tiger
, 1987) explores the road not taken. What if her family, evacuating Egypt during WWII, had traveled to South Africa rather...
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Penelope Lively, Author . Viking $24.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-670-03205-1
Lively likes historians. Her most famous novel on this side of the Atlantic, the Booker Prize–winning Moon Tiger, told the story of a popular historian; her latest narrates the quest of a "landscape historian" in search of what Proust
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Penelope Lively, Author, Adriano Gon, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $13.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-56402-417-6
In novelist Lively's second picture book (after The Cat, the Crow, and the Banyan Tree), a girl cares for her ``large family'' of stuffed toys with such vigor that she sinks into bed each night exhausted. One particular evening, however, her...
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Penelope Lively, Author, Adriano Gon, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $5.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-56402-831-0
Novelist Lively's storytelling prowess ""shines through"" said PW, in this fanciful tale of a girl and her large, exhausting ""family"" of stuffed toys. ""A diverting change from quieter bedtime stories."" Ages 3-up. (Apr.)
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Penelope Lively, Author, Jan Ormerod, Illustrator Margaret K. McElderry Books $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-82201-8
A sharp-eyed dragonfly looks out for a young frog, urging him to jump just in time to avoid getting stepped on or picked off by a crow, until he is safely ensconced in a little pond. Lively (Goodnight, Sleep Tight) creates a pleasing interaction of...
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Penelope Lively, Author, Terry Milne, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-56402-325-4
In this sophisticated picture book debut by novelist Lively, a cat and a crow pass the time by telling stories beneath the capacious banyan tree. Not just any stories, these tales come alive as they are unfolded. The cat, who is ``thin and quick,''...
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Penelope Lively. Viking, $26 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7352-2203-8
The same measured intelligence and subtle humor that characterizes Lively’s novels (like the Booker-winning Moon Tiger) is present in this story collection. The stories often bear rereading, as Lively’s quiet elegance rolls by so smoothly. “The...
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Penelope Lively. Viking, $25 (199) ISBN 978-0-52555-837-8
In this charming memoir, Booker Prize–winner Lively muses languidly on her life and how it has been influenced by gardens literal and imaginary. Exploring gardens in literature, Lively quotes Virginia Woolf: “The first pure joy of the garden......
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