Offshore

Informationen zum Autor Penelope Fitzgerald was one of the most elegant and distinctive voices in British fiction. Three of her novels, The Bookshop, The Beginning of Spring and The Gate of Angels have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She won the Prize in 1979 for Offshore. Her last novel, The Blue Flower, was the most admired novel of 1995, chosen no fewer than nineteen times in the press as the 'Book of the Year'. It won America's National Book Critics' Circle Award. She died in April 2000, at the age of eighty-three. Klappentext WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE FEATURED ON BBC'S BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB Penelope Fitzgerald's Booker Prize-winning novel of loneliness and connecting is set among the houseboat community of the Thames, with an introduction from Alan Hollinghurst. Zusammenfassung WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE FEATURED ON BBC’S BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB Penelope Fitzgerald’s Booker Prize-winning novel of loneliness and connecting is set among the houseboat community of the Thames, with an introduction from Alan Hollinghurst.

Product details

• Authors: Penelope Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald Penelope
• Assisted by: Hollinghurst Alan (Introduction)
• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 20.08.2009
• EAN: 9780007320967
• ISBN: 978-0-00-732096-7
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; London, Greater London, FICTION / Romance / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Humorous / General, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Satire, Family life fiction, Humorous fiction, Contemporary lifestyle fiction, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, FICTION / Urban & Street Lit, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary