{"product_id":"offshore-penelope-fitzgerald-paperback","title":"Offshore -- Penelope Fitzgerald, Paperback","description":"\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Dazzling. The novelistic equivalent of a Turner watercolor.\" --\u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePenelope Fitzgerald's Booker Prize-winning novel of loneliness and connecting is set among the houseboat community of the Thames. This edition includes a new introduction from Alan Hollinghurst.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn the Battersea Reach, a mixed bag of the slightly disreputable, the temporarily lost, and the patently eccentric live on houseboats, rising and falling with the tides of the Thames. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere is good-natured Maurice, by occupation a male prostitute, by chance a receiver of stolen goods. And Richard, an ex-navy man whose boat, much like its owner, dominates the Reach. Then there is Nenna, an abandoned wife and mother of two young girls running wild on the muddy foreshore, whose domestic predicament, as it deepens, will draw this disparate community together.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA novel the Booker judges deemed \"flawless,\" \u003cem\u003eOffshore\u003c\/em\u003e is one of Fitzgerald's greatest triumphs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Penelope Fitzgerald\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Harper Paperbacks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 10\/14\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 7.9\" H x 5.2\" L x 0.6\" W\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780544361515\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kotton Kandy Skies","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53396100874539,"sku":"9780544361515","price":18.12,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0962\/2978\/5899\/files\/9780544361515.jpg?v=1778516063","url":"https:\/\/2trc11-eq.myshopify.com\/products\/offshore-penelope-fitzgerald-paperback","provider":"Kotton Kandy Skies","version":"1.0","type":"link"}