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Penelope Fitzgerald - Offshore

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Lightly moored -- misfits on land or sea

by Ricardo_Ramos , May 30 '08

Pros: characterization, odd setting
Cons: some don't like the ending: they're wrong!

I love the succinct, compassionate novels of Penelope Fitzgerald. I think that my favorite is Offshore, which won the Man Booker Prize in 1979. It is set among those living on barges in the canals of London (Battersea Reach) A.D. 1961. The setting ...

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THE BEST HUMOR AND TRAGEDY OF PENELOPE FITZGERALD

by jdrum , Oct 23 '01

Pros: Best of Penelope Fitzgerald and something for live-a-board boat people.
Cons: I almost lost the total significance of the ending I was enjoying myself so much.

This is my favorite of Penelope Fitzgerald' novels. She won the Booker (British literary prize)for it. She could have won it for three previous books short listed for the prize. Currently, she is my favorite author, pushing out Barbara Pym. I will...

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	Format: Paperback, Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (April 03, 1998), ISBN: 9780... Get free shipping on orders ov... (In stock) Pages: 144, Edition: 1, Paperback, Mariner Books More at Amazon Read 1584 customer reviews on Amazon	Trusted Store 1584 store ratings	$10.36

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