Offshore -- Penelope Fitzgerald

<strong>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.</strong><br/><br/>On the Battersea Reach, a mixed bag of the slightly disreputable, the temporarily lost, and the patently eccentric live on houseboats, rising and falling with the tides of the Thames. <br/><br/>There is good-natured Maurice, by occupation a male prostitute, by chance a receiver of stolen goods. And Richard, an ex-navy man whose boat, much like its owner, dominates the Reach. Then there is Nenna, an abandoned wife and mother of two young girls running wild on the muddy foreshore, whose domestic predicament, as it deepens, will draw this disparate community together.<br/><br/>A novel the Booker judges deemed flawless, <em>Offshore</em> is one of Fitzgerald's greatest triumphs.<br/><br/>"A marvelous achievement: strong, supple, humane, ripe, generous, and graceful."--<em>Sunday Times</em><br><br><b>Author:</b> Penelope Fitzgerald<br><b>Publisher:</b> Harper Paperbacks<br><b>Published:</b> 10/14/2014<br><b>Pages:</b> 208<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.40lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.60d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780544361515<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br>PENELOPE FITZGERALD (1916-2000) was one of the most elegant and distinctive voices in British fiction. She won the National Book Critics Circle Award in fiction for <i>The Blue Flower, </i> the Booker