| Record Number |
667993 |
| ISBN |
1400041252 |
| 9781400041251 |
| 1400041252 (alk. paper) |
| Author |
Fitzgerald, Penelope |
| Title |
Offshore : Human voices ; The beginning of spring / Penelope Fitzgerald ; with an introduction by John Bayley. |
| Publisher/Date |
New York : Knopf, c2003. |
| Pagination etc. |
xxvii, 440 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Series |
Everyman's Library 269
269 |
| Everyman's Library |
| Contents note |
Offshore -- Human Voices -- The Beginning of Spring. |
| Summary Note |
"The novel Offshore limns the marginal existence of an eccentric assortment of barge dwellers on the Thames in the early 1960s, a group of misfits who are drawn to life on the muddy river in exile from the world of the landlocked. Human Voices takes us behind the scenes at the BBC during World War II, as world-weary directors and nubile young assistants attempt to save Britain's heritage and keep Britons calm in the face of a feared German invasion. In The Beginning of Spring, a struggling English printer living in Moscow in 1913 is abandoned by his wife and left alone to care for his three young children in the face of the impending revolution."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Subject |
British Broadcasting Corporation Fiction. |
| Barges -- Fiction |
| Mothers and daughters -- Fiction |
| World War, 1939-1945 -- Great Britain -- Fiction |
| British -- Russia -- Fiction |
| http://Thames River (England) -- Fiction |
| Battersea (London, England) -- Fiction |
| Russia -- History -- Nicholas II, 1894-1917 -- Fiction |
| Added Author |
Fitzgerald, Penelope Offshore. |
| Fitzgerald, Penelope Human voices. |
| Fitzgerald, Penelope Beginning of spring. |
| Added title |
Human voices. |
| Beginning of spring. |
| Shelf Location |
F FITZ |
