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Offshore

Penelope Fitzgerald

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#593 of 8,085 books · #336 in Fiction

Won the Booker Prize (1979).

On the Battersea Reach of the Thames, a mixed bag of eccentrics live in houseboats. Belonging to neither land nor sea, they belong to one another. There is Maurice, a homosexual prostitute; Richard, a buttoned-up ex-navy man; but most of all there's Nenna, the struggling mother of two wild little girls. How each of their lives complicates the others is the stuff of this perfect little novel.

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Publisher
Collins
ISBN-13
9780395478042
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Community and belongingUnconventional family lifeMarginalized lives

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