Description
"Dazzling. The novelistic equivalent of a Turner watercolor." --Washington Post
Penelope Fitzgerald's Booker Prize-winning novel of loneliness and connecting is set among the houseboat community of the Thames. This edition includes a new introduction from Alan Hollinghurst.
On the Battersea Reach, a mixed bag of the slightly disreputable, the temporarily lost, and the patently eccentric live on houseboats, rising and falling with the tides of the Thames.
There is good-natured Maurice, by occupation a male prostitute, by chance a receiver of stolen goods. And Richard, an ex-navy man whose boat, much like its owner, dominates the Reach. Then there is Nenna, an abandoned wife and mother of two young girls running wild on the muddy foreshore, whose domestic predicament, as it deepens, will draw this disparate community together.
A novel the Booker judges deemed "flawless," Offshore is one of Fitzgerald's greatest triumphs.
Author: Penelope Fitzgerald
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Published: 10/14/2014
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9780544361515
ISBN10: 0544361512
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Women
- Fiction | Romance | Contemporary
About the Author
PENELOPE FITZGERALD (1916-2000) was one of the most elegant and distinctive voices in British fiction. She won the National Book Critics Circle Award in fiction for The Blue Flower, the Booker Prize for Offshore, and three of her novels -- The Bookshop, The Gate of Angels, and The Beginning of Spring were short-listed for the Booker Prize.