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| #16990 in Books | Mariner Books | 2014-10-14 | 2014-10-14 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.00 x.56 x5.31l,1.00 | File type: PDF | 208 pages | Mariner Books||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| An autobiographical "tragi-farce" of a quirky assortment of Londoners living on houseboats|By D. Cloyce Smith|"Offshore" is a slender, accessible novel that some readers might think, as some critics did when it was first published and as I did on first reading it, a bit of a lark--quirky, often very funny, but ultimately insubstantial. When I finished it nearly a year ago, I di|.com |Offshore possesses perfect, very odd pitch. In just over 130 pages of the wittiest and most melancholy prose, Penelope Fitzgerald limns the lives of "creatures neither of firm land nor water"--a group of barge-dwellers in London's Battersea Reach,
Winner of the Booker Prize
On the Battersea Reach of the Thames, a mixed bag of the slightly disreputable, the temporarily lost, and the patently eccentric live on houseboats, rising and falling with the great river’s tides. Belonging to neither land nor sea, they cling to one another in a motley yet kindly society. There is Maurice, by occupation a male prostitute, by happenstance a receiver of stolen goods. And Richard, a buttoned-up ex-n...
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