Offshore
  • Published:
    1979
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    Print / eBook / Audio
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Pages:
    144
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"Dazzling. The novelistic equivalent of a Turner watercolor." -- Washington Post

Penelope Fitzgerald's Booker Prizeā€"winning novel of loneliness and connecting is set among the houseboat community of the Thames. This edition includes a new introduction from Alan Hollinghurst.

On 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.

There 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.

A novel the Booker judges deemed "flawless," Offshore is one of Fitzgerald's greatest triumphs.
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    • Apr-1989
    • Carroll & Graf
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0881844764
    • ISBN13: 9780881844764
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    • Apr-1998
    • Mariner
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0395478049
    • ISBN13: 9780395478042
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    • Nov-2013
    • HarperCollins (UK)
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0007320965
    • ISBN13: 9780007320967
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    • Oct-2014
    • Mariner
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0544361512
    • ISBN13: 9780544361515
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    • Jan-1979
    • HarperCollins (UK)
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0002216140
    • ISBN13: 9780002216142
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    • Sep-1987
    • Henry Holt
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0805005617
    • ISBN13: 9780805005615
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    • Apr-1998
    • Turtleback Books
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 1417711329
    • ISBN13: 9781417711321
    • Library Binding
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    • Apr-1998
    • Houghton Mifflin
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0547525508
    • ISBN13: 9780547525501
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    • Apr-1998
    • Houghton Mifflin
    • eBook (Kindle)
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    • Apr-1998
    • Fourth Estate (UK)
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0007373821
    • ISBN13: 9780007373826
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    • Dec-2016
    • HarperCollins Publishers Limited
    • Audible
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    • Jan-1994
    • Chivers
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0745122604
    • ISBN13: 9780745122601
    • Large Print
    •  
    • Jul-1994
    • Chivers
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0792720288
    • ISBN13: 9780792720287
    • Large Print
    •  
    • Jul-1994
    • John Curley & Assoc
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 079272027X
    • ISBN13: 9780792720270
    • Large Print
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    • Jul-1994
    • Chivers
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0745122523
    • ISBN13: 9780745122526
    • Large Print



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