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Offshore
Penelope Fitzgerald
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Description for Offshore
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 200.
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Penelope Fitzgerald’s Booker Prize-winning novel of loneliness and connecting is set among the houseboat community of the Thames, with an introduction from Alan Hollinghurst.
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Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780007320967
SKU
V9780007320967
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About Penelope Fitzgerald
Penelope Fitzgerald was one of the most elegant and distinctive voices in British fiction. Three of her novels, The Bookshop, The Beginning of Spring and The Gate of Angels have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She won the Prize in 1979 for Offshore. Her last novel, The Blue Flower, was the most admired novel of 1995, chosen no fewer ... Read more
Reviews for Offshore
Praise for Penelope Fitzgerald and Offshore: ‘An astonishing book. Hardly more than 50,000 words, it is written with a manic economy that makes it seem even shorter, and with a tamped-down force that continually explodes in a series of exactly controlled detonations. Offshore is a marvellous achievement: strong, ... Read more