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Penelope Fitzgerald – Offshore – First UK Edition 1979
£95.00
A first edition, first printing by Collins in 1979. A fine copy in a near fine, unclipped wrapper with slight wear to the spine tips and corners.
With comparisons to Evelyn Waugh and Martin Amis, Fitzgerald writes with sparseness of expression and with subtle social interactions. Winner of the Booker Prize in 1979, Offshore tells the story of of a group of eccentrics living in boats on the banks of the Thames.
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A first edition, first printing by Collins in 1979. A fine copy in a near fine, unclipped wrapper with slight wear to the spine tips and corners.
With comparisons to Evelyn Waugh and Martin Amis, Fitzgerald writes with sparseness of expression and with subtle social interactions. Winner of the Booker Prize in 1979, Offshore tells the story of of a group of eccentrics living in boats on the banks of the Thames.
