Offshore
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Sixty-one when she published her first novel, Penelope Fitzgerald based many subsequent books on the experiences of a long and varied life.
Offshore, which won the Booker Prize in 1979, explores her time living on a barge at Battersea Reach.
Sixty-one when she published her first novel, Penelope Fitzgerald based many subsequent books on the experiences of a long and varied life.
Offshore, which won the Booker Prize in 1979, explores her time living on a barge at Battersea Reach.
Human Voices takes place in the BBC where she worked during World War II. Both are vivid, intimate pictures of ordinary life, startling, sad and funny by turns, conjuring up complex worlds with the economy of poetry.
The Beginning of Spring is an historical novel operating on a larger canvas. It presents a life unknown to the author through a story of English émigrés in pre-Revolutionary Russia and has been described by one critic as the best ‘Russian’ novel of the twentieth century.
Written with energy, passion and wit, and each quite different from the others, all three of these masterpieces reveal a lightness of touch with the most serious matters unlike anything else in contemporary fiction.
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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 04 september 2003
Aantal pagina's: 512
Illustraties: Nee
Hoofdauteur: Penelope Fitzgerald
Tweede Auteur: P. Fitzgerald
Hoofduitgeverij: Everyman'S Library
Product breedte: 135 mm
Product hoogte: 30 mm
Product lengte: 210 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 130 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 28 mm
Verpakking lengte: 208 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 630 g
EAN: 9781857152692