Offshore - Couverture souple

Fitzgerald, Penelope

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0881844764 ISBN 13 : 9780881844764

Editeur : Carroll & Graf Pub, 1989

Synopsis

Book by Fitzgerald Penelope

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

Présentation de l'éditeur

On the Battersea Reach of the Thames, a mixed bag of eccentrics live in houseboats. Belonging to neither land nor sea, they belong to one another. There is Maurice, a homosexual prostitute; Richard, a buttoned-up ex-navy man; but most of all there's Nenna, the struggling mother of two wild little girls. How each of their lives complicates the others is the stuff of this perfect little novel.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Carroll & Graf Pub
• Date d'édition: 1989
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0881844764
• ISBN 13: 9780881844764
• Reliure: Broché
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible