Author Biography
Penelope Fitzgerald was born in December 1916. She was educated at Somerville College, Oxford and she worked for the BBC during World War II. She started writing at the age of 60 and was the author of nine novels, three of which - The Bookshop in 1978, The Beginning of Spring in 1988 and The Gate of Angels in1990 - were shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She won the prize in 1979 for Offshore. Penelope Fitzgerald died in April 2000 aged 83.
Synopsis
Offshore is set among the houseboat community who rise and fall with the tide of the Thames on Battersea Reach. Living between land and water, they feel as if they belong to neither…Maurice, a male prostitute, is the sympathetic friend to whom all the others turn. Nenna loves her husband but can’t get him back; her children run wild on the muddy foreshore. She feels drawn to Richard, the ex-RNVR city man whose converted minesweeper dominates the Reach. Is he sexually attractive because he can fold maps the right way? With this and other questions waiting to be answered, Offshore offers a delightful glimpse of the workings of an eccentric community
Penelope大妈以她的善良和与世无争书写了她年轻时的一段经历。尽管她一生小心翼翼,但还是经常去掉下梯子,或者被锁在浴室里,以及不可避免的交通事故。她温和得不去对人物做任何评价,使用简单的语言,以这种单一的风格贯穿了她前期的写作。她在一次写给编辑的信中说到:“总...
评分 评分什么样生活适合你就竭尽全力去坚持, 因为这是我们唯一能找到自我最彻底的方式 ,什么也改变不了 ,什么样的婚姻在潜意识有多爱裸露在不相互依存不相互迁就的现实下那都是致命的 .我喜欢里面对花猫的描写 ,坚强, 执着 ,还有无奈.
评分“Off Shore”读过的Fitzgerald的第二本书。刚刚读完Bernhard,这本书实在是让人觉得清新,即使讲述的仍然是一群游历在理想和现实之间的人。 书并不长,却同样环环相扣引人入胜,开头短短几页就让人完全为GRACE号上的母女三人的去留牵肠挂肚。 一群住在河岸边船上的人,他们...
评分离岸 是我看的佩内洛普菲茨杰拉德的第四本书。本本精彩。 有次写推荐最喜欢的作家写了英国的佩内洛普菲茨杰拉德,还有人好心纠正菲茨杰拉德是美国的。于是我更好心的去纠正他我说的是英国的老太太,美国那个我无感,我爱的是英国的这个老太太菲茨杰拉德 。据说她做过很多...
离岸,布克奖。
评分离岸,布克奖。
评分离岸,布克奖。
评分(1979) R4
评分(1979) R4
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