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Offshore
Penelope Fitzgerald
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Description for Offshore
Hardcover. Written with energy and each quite different from the others, this volume features three novels which reveal a lightness of touch with the most serious matters unlike anything else in contemporary fiction. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 534.
Sixty-one when she published her first novel, Penelope Fitzgerald based many subsequent books on the experiences of a long and varied life. Offshore, which won the Booker Prize in 1979, explores her time living on a barge at Battersea Reach. Human Voices takes place in the BBC where she worked during World War II. Both are vivid, intimate pictures of ordinary life, startling, sad and funny by turns, conjuring up complex worlds with the economy of poetry. The Beginning of Spring is an historical novel operating on ... Read more
Sixty-one when she published her first novel, Penelope Fitzgerald based many subsequent books on the experiences of a long and varied life. Offshore, which won the Booker Prize in 1979, explores her time living on a barge at Battersea Reach. Human Voices takes place in the BBC where she worked during World War II. Both are vivid, intimate pictures of ordinary life, startling, sad and funny by turns, conjuring up complex worlds with the economy of poetry. The Beginning of Spring is an historical novel operating on ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Number of pages
512
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Number of Pages
512
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781857152692
SKU
V9781857152692
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99-99
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