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Offshore, Human Voices, The Beginning of Spring (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
Offshore Human Voices The Beginning of Spring - Everyman's Library Cloth
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After publishing her first novel in 1977 at the age of sixty-one, Penelope Fitzgerald (1916–2000) went on to become one of the most remarkable and highly acclaimed English writers of the last century. Each of the three novels gathered here vividly and unforgettably conjures up an entire world. — The Booker Prize–winning novel Offsh... more » limns the marginal existance 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. Fitzgerald is a genius of the relevant detail and the deftly sketched context, and these narrative gems are marvels of compassion, wit, and piercing insight.
Author:
After publishing her first novel in 1977 at the age of sixty-one, Penelope Fitzgerald (1916–2000) went on to become one of the most remarkable and highly acclaimed English writers of the last century. Each of the three novels gathered here vividly and unforgettably conjures up an entire world. — The Booker Prize–winning novel Offsh... more » limns the marginal existance 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. Fitzgerald is a genius of the relevant detail and the deftly sketched context, and these narrative gems are marvels of compassion, wit, and piercing insight.
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(save 44%)ISBN-13: 9781400041251
ISBN-10: 1400041252
Publication Date: 9/23/2003
Pages: 480
Rating: 1
ISBN-10: 1400041252
Publication Date: 9/23/2003
Pages: 480
Rating: 1
3 stars, based on 1 rating
Genres:
- Literature & Fiction >> General >> Literary
- Literature & Fiction >> Short Stories & Anthologies >> British
- Literature & Fiction >> British & Irish >> 20th Century
- Literature & Fiction >> Authors, A-Z >> ( F ) >> Fitzgerald, Penelope
- Literature & Fiction >> Women's Fiction >> Mothers & Children
