Offshore

Author(s): Penelope Fitzgerald

Fiction

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""


Product Information

General Fields

  • : 9780544361515
  • : Mariner Books
  • : Mariner Books
  • : 0.181
  • : October 2014
  • : 201mm X 132mm X 15mm
  • : United States
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Penelope Fitzgerald
  • : Paperback / softback
  • : English
  • : 823.914
  • : 208