About this title: OFFSHORE is a love story set among a community of barge-dwellers on the Thames, where Fitzgerald herself lived with her family in the 1960s. The novel won the Booker Prize in 1979. THE GATE OF ANGELS, also known as THE BLUE FLOWER, tells the story of an idealistic man who is the lover and mentor of a 12-year-old girl with whom he is obsessed. Upon her death three years later, she becomes his muse. This novel is based on the life of the German romantic poet Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg, 1772-1801), whose major work was a novel describing the artist's search for a "blue flower."
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Mariner Books
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780395478042ISBN:0395478049
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. light wear on edges but other wise very good. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 144 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Fair. No dust jacket as issued. MED TB: light wear, small tear/peeling on spine, faded spine, pages starting to come loose from cover, light age discoloration. 141 p.; read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Mariner Books
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780395478042ISBN:0395478049
Description: A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. Previous owners name inscribed inside front. -, Trade PaperBack, Very Good / read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Acceptable. 1988 Softbound. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Your purchase benefits Books for Africa! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Acceptable. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
"I read a few of Penelope Fitzgerald's books a long time ago and scenes from those books are still clear in my mind. She's just a great storyteller, you find yourself immediately immersed in her world. This book is no different- I breezed through its 140 pages and desperately wanted the story to go on, and on, and on... she creates characters that feel like real people whose lives continue beyond the book's pages, and you can't help but want to follow their lives indefinitely. I still feel like Richard and Nenna and her children are living on the houseboats on the Thames, forty years on. Wonder what they're doing now..."
"Booker Prize winning novel by an author who was new to me. This is a short, but nicely packed, text -- good characters, approachable themes, a careful blend of real-life and philosophy. The story involves a small group of individuals who exist in an in-between state -- not of the land but not of the water; of the water but not of the sea; married but alone. They all live on barges tied up on the Thames. Good read, try it."
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