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Offshore: A Novel
Penelope Fitzgerald
Offshore: A Novel
Penelope Fitzgerald
Winner of the Booker Prize
On the Battersea Reach of the Thames, a mixed bag of the slightly disreputable, the temporarily lost, and the patently eccentric live on houseboats, rising and falling with the great river?s tides. Belonging to neither land nor sea, they cling to one another in a motley yet kindly society. There is Maurice, by occupation a male prostitute, by happenstance a receiver of stolen goods. And Richard, a buttoned-up ex-navy man whose boat dominates the Reach. Then there is Nenna, a faithful but abandoned wife, the diffident mother of two young girls running wild on the waterfront streets.
It is Nenna?s domestic predicament that, as it deepens, draws the relations among this scrubby community together into ever more complex and comic patterns. The result is one of Fitzgerald?s greatest triumphs, a novel the Booker judges deemed ?flawless.?
?A marvelous achievement: strong, supple, humane, ripe, generous, and graceful.? ?Sunday Times
208 pages
Medien | Bücher Taschenbuch (Buch mit Softcover und geklebtem Rücken) |
Erscheinungsdatum | 14. Oktober 2014 |
ISBN13 | 9780544361515 |
Verlag | HarperCollins |
Seitenanzahl | 208 |
Maße | 181 g |
Sprache | Englisch |
Mitwirkende | Alan Hollinghurst |
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