Offshore
by Fitzgerald, Penelope
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0805005617
- ISBN 13
- 9780805005615
- Seller
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Synopsis
Penelope Knox Fitzgerald is a Booker Prize-winning English novelist, poet, and essayist. Her novel, Offshore , was the recipient of the Man Booker prize in 1979. In this story a fascinating group of mild eccentrics are living on riverboats moored on the Thames in an area known as Battersea Reach. Most of the attention is focused on Nenna, a bohemian Canadian expatriate whose husband has left her and who is left veritably struggling to keep things afloat. Ms. Fitzgerald does a spectacular job of inviting the reader in to witness how each member of the group has the capacity to complicate the lives of the others. It is a fabulous comedy with a definite edge that will linger long after the story is told.
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- Bookseller
- Southampton Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 134194
- Title
- Offshore
- Author
- Fitzgerald, Penelope
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0805005617
- ISBN 13
- 9780805005615
- Publisher
- Henry Holt & Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 1987
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