The Means Of Escape

The Means of Escape showcases this incomparable author at her most intelligent, her funniest, her best. Like her novels, these brilliant stories are miniature studies of the endless absurdity of human behavior. Concise, comic, biting, and mischievous, they are vintage Fitzgerald. Roaming the globe and the ages, the stories travel from England to France to New Zealand and from today to the seventeenth century.

Uniting them is a universal theme: the shifting balance between those who are in positions of power—by wealth, status, or class—and those who, deceptively, are not. The Means of Escape memorializes a life and a writer guided by a generous but unwavering moral gaze.