The Booker prize winning novel by Alan Hollinghurst, set in the vibrant community of houseboats along the Thames River, is all about Maurice, an intelligent and sensitive but vulnerable prostitute. This novel is full of humor and deep insights into the everyday life of those residing on the riverfront. They face insecurities and challenges as they deal with their emotions and everyday tasks. Maurice is intrigued by this semi-omnipotent little boat, and is determined in trying to understand the mysterious changes that his own life seems to undergo.
Электронная Книга «Offshore» написана автором Alan Hollinghurst в году.
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Язык: Английский
ISBN: 9780007373826
Описание книги от Alan Hollinghurst
This Booker Prize-winning novel from the author of ‘The Blue Flower’ is set among the houseboat community of the Thames.‘Offshore’ is a dry, genuinely funny novel, 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.
