Offshore
of Penelope Fitzgerald, Alan Hollinghusrt (Introduction)
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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 riverâs 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 Nennaâs 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 Fitzgeraldâs greatest triumphs, a novel the Booker judges deemed âflawless.â âA marvelous achievement: strong, supple, humane, ripe, generous, and graceful.â âSunday Times
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Book Details
- Format Audiobook
- Pages 0 pages
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Publication Date December 15th 2016
- First Publication 11/06/79
- Language English
- ISBN 9780006542568
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
- Scenario ['London, England']
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