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| #1459549 in Books | 1998-04-03 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.25 x.31 x5.50l,.33 | File type: PDF | 144 pages||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| An autobiographical "tragi-farce" of a quirky assortment of Londoners living on houseboats|By D. Cloyce Smith|"Offshore" is a slender, accessible novel that some readers might think, as some critics did when it was first published and as I did on first reading it, a bit of a lark--quirky, often very funny, but ultimately insubstantial. When I finished it nearly a year ago, I di|.com |Offshore possesses perfect, very odd pitch. In just over 130 pages of the wittiest and most melancholy prose, Penelope Fitzgerald limns the lives of "creatures neither of firm land nor water"--a group of barge-dwellers in London's Battersea Reach,
On the Battersea Reach of the Thames, a mixed bag of eccentrics live in houseboats. Belonging to neither land nor sea, they belong to one another. There is Maurice, a homosexual prostitute; Richard, a buttoned-up ex-navy man; but most of all there's Nenna, the struggling mother of two wild little girls. How each of their lives complicates the others is the stuff of this perfect little novel.
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