Offshore - Brossura

Fitzgerald, Penelope

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0544361512 ISBN 13: 9780544361515

Casa editrice: Mariner Books, 2014

Riassunto

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

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Recensione:

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

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Mariner Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0544361512
• ISBN 13: 9780544361515
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 181