Offshore

Penelope Fitzgerald

Offshore
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Harper Paperbacks
Country
United States
Published
14 October 2014
Pages
208
ISBN
9780544361515

Offshore

Penelope Fitzgerald

Penelope Fitzgerald’s Booker Prize-winning novel of loneliness and connecting is set among the houseboat community of the Thames and has 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.

A marvelous achievement: strong, supple, humane, ripe, generous, and graceful. –Sunday Times

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