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Letty Fox: Her Luck Paperback - 2001

by Christina Stead; Introduction by Tim Parks


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Christina Stead (1902-1983) was born in Australia but lived for many years in London and New York, which she took as the settings for her major novels. She worked in banks and as a screenwriter while writing the acclaimed novels, The Man Who Loved Children, A House of All Nations, and Letty Fox: Her Luck. She returned to Australia in the early 1970s and lived there for the rest of her life.

Tim Parks, a novelist, essayist, and translator, is Associate Professor of Literature and Translation at IULM University in Milan. His most recent novel is Dreams of Rivers and Seas.

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  • Title Letty Fox: Her Luck
  • Author Christina Stead; Introduction by Tim Parks
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Thus
  • Pages 602
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher New York Review of Books, New York, NY
  • Date 2001-04-30
  • ISBN 9780940322707 / 0940322706
  • Weight 1.26 lbs (0.57 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.08 x 5.07 x 1.12 in (20.52 x 12.88 x 2.84 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Psychological fiction, City and town life
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00012048
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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No wonder [Stead’s] work has reminded many of Tolstoy, Ibsen, Joyce—any tag to signify that the reader is offered breadth of vision and honest depth of enjoyment, with neither sacrificed to the other…Her works bridge the gap between that humanistic preoccupation with character which the novel is said to have lost in the past, and that modern spirit which any novel worthy of its time must have. What her books teach us is that wisdom is the novelist’s ultimate requirement.
— The New York Times Book Review

[Christina Stead] is really marvelous. She gropes here, she gropes there, she introduces this subject and that subject, seems to talk to no purpose—talk and talk! Then suddenly, with a wild outburst, she understands something. A discovery has been made.
— Saul Bellow

About the author

Christina Stead (1902-1983) was born in Australia but lived for many years in London and New York, which she took as the settings for her major novels. She worked in banks and as a screenwriter while writing the acclaimed novels, "The Man Who Loved Children, A House of All Nations," and "Letty Fox: Her Luck." She returned to Australia in the early 1970s and lived there for the rest of her life.
Tim Parks, a novelist, essayist, and translator, is Associate Professor of Literature and Translation at IULM University in Milan. His most recent novel is "Dreams of Rivers and Seas."
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