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Offshore

Penelope Fitzgerald

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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

Format:

Pages:: 140 pages

Publication:: 2003

Publisher:: Harper Perennial

Edition:

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0006542565

ISBN13:: 9780006542568

kindle Asin:: B00DAJ4XTC

Offshore

Penelope Fitzgerald

3.59/5 (4951 ratings)

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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

Format:

Pages:: 140 pages

Publication:: 2003

Publisher:: Harper Perennial

Edition:

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0006542565

ISBN13:: 9780006542568

kindle Asin:: B00DAJ4XTC

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