{"product_id":"offshore","title":"Offshore","description":"\u003ch1\u003eOffshore\u003c\/h1\u003ePenelope Fitzgerald,Penelope Fitzgerald\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Harper Paperbacks\u003cbr\u003eOctober 14 2014\u003cbr\u003eEAN: 9780544361515\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 0544361512\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eItems marked as \u003cb\u003eWAREHOUSE\u003c\/b\u003e may take additional time to be delivered to your address or picked up in the store.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSynopsis: \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Dazzling. The novelistic equivalent of a Turner watercolor.\" --\u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePenelope Fitzgerald's Booker Prize-winning novel of loneliness and connecting is set among the houseboat community of the Thames. This edition includes a new introduction from Alan Hollinghurst.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the Battersea Reach, a mixed bag of the slightly disreputable, the temporarily lost, and the patently eccentric live on houseboats, rising and falling with the tides of the Thames. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is good-natured Maurice, by occupation a male prostitute, by chance a receiver of stolen goods. And Richard, an ex-navy man whose boat, much like its owner, dominates the Reach. Then there is Nenna, an abandoned wife and mother of two young girls running wild on the muddy foreshore, whose domestic predicament, as it deepens, will draw this disparate community together.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA novel the Booker judges deemed \"flawless,\" \u003cem\u003eOffshore\u003c\/em\u003e is one of Fitzgerald's greatest triumphs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"27th Letter Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67392995229741,"sku":"WHS-c5aa47a047794023b6effa377b25317b","price":16.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/3588\/0749\/files\/original_c124b543-2151-4a02-a703-2ec1cc9dbcac.jpg?v=1787370255","url":"https:\/\/27thletterbooks.com\/products\/offshore","provider":"27th Letter Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}