Offshore

Resumen del libro

Offshore' is a dry, genuinely funny novel, set among the houseboat community who rise and fall with the tide of the Thames on Battersea Reach. Living between land and water, they feel as if they belong to neither Maurice, a male prostitute, is the sympathetic friend to whom all the others turn. Nenna loves her husband but can't get him back; her children run wild on the muddy foreshore. She feels drawn to Richard, the ex-RNVR city man whose converted minesweeper dominates the Reach. Is he sexually attractive because he can fold maps the right way? With this and other questions waiting to be answered, Offshore' offers a delightful glimpse of the workings of an eccentric community.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p Penelope Fitzgerald, de soltera Knox, nació en 1916. Fue hija del editor de Punch, Edmund Knox, y sobrina del teólogo y novelista Ronald Knox, del criptógrafo Dilly Knox y del estudioso de la Biblia Wilfred Knox. En Impedimenta han aparecido sus novelas x{0026}lt;i La libreríax{0026}lt;/i (1978; Impedimenta, 2010), x{0026}lt;i A la derivax{0026}lt;/i (1979; Impedimenta, 2018), x{0026}lt;i Voces humanasx{0026}lt;/i (1980; Impedimenta, 2019), x{0026}lt;i La escuela de Freddiex{0026}lt;/i (1982; Impedimenta, 2022), x{0026}lt;i Inocenciax{0026}lt;/i (1986; Impedimenta, 2013), x{0026}lt;i El inicio de la primaverax{0026}lt;/i (1988; Impedimenta, 2011), x{0026}lt;i La puerta de los ángelesx{0026}lt;/i (1990; Impedimenta, 2015), x{0026}lt;i La flor azulx{0026}lt;/i (1995, Impedimenta, 2014) y x{0026}lt;i El niño de orox{0026}lt;/i (1977; Impedimenta, 2024).x{0026}lt;/p