Offshore: A Novel - Couverture souple

Fitzgerald, Penelope

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0544361512 ISBN 13 : 9780544361515

Editeur : Mariner Books, 2014

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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

Revue de presse

Winner of the Booker Prize “Dazzling. The novelistic equivalent of a Turner watercolor.” — Washington Post

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Mariner Books
• Date d'édition: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0544361512
• ISBN 13: 9780544361515
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 208