| #61427 in Books | Grove Press | 1997-09-18 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.20 x.80 x5.40l, | File type: PDF | 208 pages | Great product!||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| Interesting book on many levels|By B. Turner|When I first started this novel, I thought it jumped around rather chaotically, but then I realized that it was cleverly written like the mind of someone of advanced age who was dying. As it moved from present to past and back again, you began to see what Claudia's life had been. I found the descriptions of life in Cairo during Wor|From Library Journal|Lively recently won Britain's prestigious Booker Prize for this deeply moving, elegantly structured novel. The heroine is Claudia Hampton, an unconventional historian and former war correspondent who lies in a hospital bed dying of cancer. F
Winner of the Man Booker Prize
The elderly Claudia Hampton, a best-selling author of popular history; lies alone in a London hospital bed. Memories of her life still glow in her fading consciousness, but she imagines writing a history of the world. Instead, Moon Tiger is her own history, the life of a strong, independent woman, with its often contentious relations with family and friends. At its center — forever frozen in time, the still point of...
You easily download any file type for your device.Moon Tiger | Penelope Lively.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
