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"...THE MEANS OF ESCAPE, a very slim volume of eight stories, appears more cryptic and sidelong even than the novels, giving us a last, rather teasing and enigmatic look, and likely to leave Fitzgerald's admirers all the sadder that now there is no one to explain, and no more to come....Cruelty, indifference and the exercise of power are the realities. But the stories are also filled with Fitzgerald's characteristic tender, humorous apprehension of human oddness and ordinariness, and of moments of good luck which shine through in memorable images."Fitzgerald, Penelope is the author of 'Means of Escape', published 2001 under ISBN 9780618154500 and ISBN 0618154507.
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