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Everyman's Library (2003), Hardcover, 480 pages
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"The novel Offshore limns the marginal existence of an eccentric assortment of barge dwellers on the Thames in the early 1960s, a group of misfits who are drawn to life on the muddy river in exile from the world of the landlocked. Human Voices takes us behind the scenes at the BBC during World War II, as world-weary directors and nubile young assistants attempt to save Britain's heritage and keep Britons calm in the face of a feared German invasion. In The Beginning of Spring, a struggling English printer living in Moscow in 1913 is abandoned by his wife and left alone to care for his three young children in the face of the impending revolution."--BOOK JACKET.
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LibraryThing member ElizabethPisani
In my opinion, Penelope Fitzgerald is one of the most under-rated writers of our age. Her prose is spare, lucid and extraordinarily evocative. Her early novels are rooted in experience (of life on a London houseboat, running a decidedly third rate drama school etc). In her later years she turned to
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historical settings, but retained her ability to transport the reader to a demi-monde that consumes our interest in unexpected ways. Show Less
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English
Physical description
480 p.; 8.32 inches
ISBN
1400041252 / 9781400041251