中文参考译名:薪火
Author: Penelope Lively
Publisher: Grove Pre
Keywords: passing
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1999-03-09
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0802136265
ISBN-13: 9780802136268

Booker-Prize winning author Penelope Lively is that rare writer who goes from strength to strength in book after perfectly assured book. In Passing On, she applies her distinctive insight and consummate artistry to the subtle story of a domineering and manipulative mother’s legacy to her children. With their mother’s death, Helen and Edward, both middle-aged and both unmarried, are left to face the ramifications of their mother’s hold on their lives for all of these years. Helen and Edward slowly learn to accept what has been lost in their own lives and embrace what can yet b

中文参考译名:阿豪斯1-5
Author: Penelope Lively
Publisher: Grove Press
Keywords: unlocked, house
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2003-04
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0802140076
ISBN-13: 9780802140074

In A House Unlocked, Penelope Lively takes us on a journey of her familial country house in England that her grandparents bought in 1923. As her narrative shifts from room to room, object to object, she paints a moving portrait of an era of rapid change—and of the family that changed with the times. As she charts the course of the domestic tensions of class and community among her relatives, she brings to life the effects of the horrors of the Russian Revolution and the Holocaust through portraits of the refugees who came to live with them. A fascinating, intimate social history of its

Author: Penelope Lively
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: making
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2006-09-26
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0143037846
ISBN-13: 9780143037842

Hailed by critics as a benchmark in a career full of award-winning achievements, Making It Up is Penelope Lively’s answer to the oft-asked question, "How much of what you write comes from your own life?" What if Lively hadn’t escaped from Egypt, her birthplace, at the outbreak of World War II? What would her life have been like if she’d married someone else? From a hillside in Italy to an archaeological dig, the author explores the stories that could have been hers, fashioning a sublime dance between reality and imagination that confirms her reputation as a singular talent.

中文参考译名:包卡的
Author: Penelope Lively
Publisher: Grove Press
Keywords: cards, pack
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1999-03-09
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0802136249
ISBN-13: 9780802136244

As she delves into the minutiae of her characters’ lives, Lively introduces the reader to slivers of the everyday world that are not always open to observation.

Author: Penelope Lively
Publisher: Viking Adult
Keywords: consequences
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2007-05-31
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0670038563
ISBN-13: 9780670038565

The Booker Prize-winning author’s first novel since The Photograph is a sweeping saga of three generations of women, their lives, and loves A chance meeting in St. James’s Park begins young Lorna and Matt’s intense relationship. Wholly in love, they leave London for a cottage in a rural Somerset village. Their intimate life together—Matt’s woodcarving, Lorna’s self-discovery, their new baby, Molly—is shattered with the arrival of World War II. In 1960s London, Molly happens upon a forgotten newspaper—a seemingly small moment that leads to her first job and, event

Author: Penelope Lively
Publisher: Grove Press
Keywords: tiger
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1997-09-18
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0802135331
ISBN-13: 9780802135339

The last thoughts of a dying writer are captured in this intelligent novel by Booker Prize-winner Penelope Lively. The moving and poignant story of life as a writer, historian, and mother ends as a saga of unfufilled love.

Author: Penelope Lively
Publisher: Viking Adult
Keywords: making
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2005-10-20
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0670034479
ISBN-13: 9780670034475

Authors of fiction are often asked, "How much of what you write comes from your own life?" This is especially the case for Penelope Lively, whose celebrated works such as The Photograph and the Booker Prize-winning Moon Tiger ring so true that they seem to tread that fine line between fact and fiction. Making It Up is Lively’s engrossing and deftly constructed response. What if her family’s escape from Egypt during World War II had a different outcome? What would her life have been like if she’d become pregnant at eighteen? Or if she had married someone else? As Lively