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Moon Tiger
Penelope Lively
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Description for Moon Tiger
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**SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDEN MAN BOOKER PRIZE** Claudia Hampton - beautiful, famous, independent, dying. But she remains defiant to the last, telling her nurses that she will write a 'history of the world . . . and in the process, my own'. And it is her story from a childhood just after the First World War through the Second and beyond. But Claudia's life is entwined with others and she must allow those who knew her, loved her, the chance to speak, to put across their point of view. There is Gordon, brother ... Read more
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDEN MAN BOOKER PRIZE** Claudia Hampton - beautiful, famous, independent, dying. But she remains defiant to the last, telling her nurses that she will write a 'history of the world . . . and in the process, my own'. And it is her story from a childhood just after the First World War through the Second and beyond. But Claudia's life is entwined with others and she must allow those who knew her, loved her, the chance to speak, to put across their point of view. There is Gordon, brother ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141044842
SKU
9780141044842
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Ref
99-1
About Penelope Lively
Penelope Lively has written many prize-winning novels for adults and children. They include: The Road To Lichfield, According To Mark, Moon Tiger (which won the 1987 Booker Prize), Heat Wave, Spiderweb, The Photograph, Making It Up, Consequences and Family Album. Penelope Lively lives in London.
Reviews for Moon Tiger
Atmospheric, inventive. Few books I've read recently have given me so much pleasure.
Sam Jordison, Guardian
One of Britain's most celebrated novelists. Moon Tiger's multiple, shifting viewpoints weaves an eloquent disquisition on memory, identity, age, love and regret
Financial Times
Lively's ability to bring her character and the world she inhabits into full technicolour is beautiful. ... Read more
Sam Jordison, Guardian
One of Britain's most celebrated novelists. Moon Tiger's multiple, shifting viewpoints weaves an eloquent disquisition on memory, identity, age, love and regret
Financial Times
Lively's ability to bring her character and the world she inhabits into full technicolour is beautiful. ... Read more