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Offshore

Penelope Fitzgerald

3.6/5 ( ratings)

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-navy man whose boat dominates the Reach. Then there is Nenna, a faithful but abandoned wife, the diffident mother of two young girls running wild on the waterfront streets.

It is Nenna’s domestic predicament that, as it deepens, draws the relations among this scrubby community together into ever more complex and comic patterns.

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here

Language: English

Pages: 140

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Harper Perennial

Release: September 01, 2003

ISBN: 0006542565

ISBN 13: 9780006542568

Offshore

Penelope Fitzgerald

3.6/5 ( ratings)

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-navy man whose boat dominates the Reach. Then there is Nenna, a faithful but abandoned wife, the diffident mother of two young girls running wild on the waterfront streets.

It is Nenna’s domestic predicament that, as it deepens, draws the relations among this scrubby community together into ever more complex and comic patterns.

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here

Language: English

Pages: 140

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Harper Perennial

Release: September 01, 2003

ISBN: 0006542565

ISBN 13: 9780006542568

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