Penelope Fitzgerald's novel, The Golden Child, combines a deft comedy of manners with a classic mystery set in London's most refined institution—the museum. When the glittering treasure of ancient Garamantia, the golden child, is delivered to the museum, a web of intrigue tightens around its personnel, especially the hapless museum officer Waring Smith. Penelope Fitzgerald's first novel is packed with institutional follies and fiercely territorial old trouts. Set in a London museum whose officers only appear august, The Golden Child literally proves that authorities are clowns and clowns authorities. As the book opens, all England is queuing up to see the golden treasure of the Garamantes--the remains of a young king who was interred complete with a trove of /5(72). · Penelope Fitzgerald: The Golden Child. The Golden Child by Penelope Fitzgerald () Mariner Books () pp. I have all of Penelope Fitzgerald’s novels lined up on my shelf, knowing I’d have to read each after finding so much to love in The Bookshop (review here) and Offshore (review here). But I’d heard that her first novel, The Golden Child — published when she was 61, by .
[The Golden Child] [By: Fitzgerald, Penelope] [October, ] [Fitzgerald, Penelope] on www.doorway.ru *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. [The Golden Child] [By. 'The Golden Child', Penelope Fitzgerald's first work of fiction, is a classically plotted British mystery centred around the arrival of the Golden Child at a London museum. Far be it for the hapless Waring Smith, junior officer at a prominent London museum, to expect any kind of thanks for his work on the opening of the year's biggest. Penelope Fitzgerald#39;s novel, The Golden Child, combines a deft comedy of manners with a classic mystery set in London#39;s most refined institutionmdash;the museum. When the glittering treasure of ancient Garamantia, the golden child, is delivered to the museum, a web of intrigue.
The Golden Child was Booker winner Penelope Fitzgerald's first novel, written in her late fifties to entertain her dying husband. So the story goes. It is a comedy according to the praise on the cover, but don't come looking for laughs. I found it rather tedious and only finished it due to some strange unexplainable desire for closure. The Golden Child, Penelope Fitzgerald's first novel, is an old-school English mystery novel in a museum setting. The unnamed Museum where much of the novel is set is obviously based on the British Museum, and the grand winter exhibition on show, the Golden Treasure of the Garamantes -- which includes, most notably, the 'Golden Child' -- is clearly a variation on the British Museum's own blockbuster 'Treasures of Tutankhamun'-exhibit of The Golden Child is a mystery novel by the British author Penelope Fitzgerald, her first published work of fiction. Written while her husband was terminally ill, and partly for his benefit, the novel offers a satirical version of the Treasures of Tutankhamun exhibition at the British Museum, and pokes fun at museum politics, academic scholars, and Cold War spying.
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