{"product_id":"offshorebooks","title":"Offshore","description":"\u003cstrong\u003ePenelope Fitzgerald's Booker Prize–winning novel of loneliness and connecting is set among the houseboat community of the Thames and has a new introduction from Alan Hollinghurst.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA novel the Booker judges deemed \"flawless,\" \u003cem\u003eOffshore\u003c\/em\u003e is one of Fitzgerald’s greatest triumphs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A marvelous achievement: strong, supple, humane, ripe, generous, and graceful.”—\u003cem\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/em\u003e","brand":"Fitzgerald, Penelope","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Adult Fiction)","offer_id":44079048491232,"sku":"","price":10.19,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/files\/BNCImageAPI_b43cac68-2f9c-4154-928e-cfefd63fdaba.jpg?v=1688728811","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/offshorebooks","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}