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Offshore is a 1979 novel by Penelope Fitzgerald.Her third novel, it won the Booker Prize in the same year. The book explores the emotional restlessness of houseboat dwellers who live neither fully on the water nor fully on the land.
Penelope Mary Fitzgerald (17 December 1916 – 28 April 2000) was a Booker Prize-winning novelist, poet, essayist and biographer from Lincoln, England. [1] In 2008 The Times listed her among "the 50 greatest British writers since 1945". [ 2 ]
Penelope Lively: The Road to Lichfield: Heinemann Barbara Pym: Quartet in Autumn: Macmillan 1978 Winner Iris Murdoch: The Sea, the Sea: Chatto & Windus Sir Alfred Ayer (chair) Derwent May; P. H. Newby; Angela Huth; Clare Boylan; Shortlist Kingsley Amis: Jake's Thing: Hutchinson André Brink: Rumours of Rain: W. H. Allen Penelope Fitzgerald: The ...
At 136 pages, Orbital was the second shortest novel to be awarded a Booker Prize (with the shortest novel being Penelope Fitzgerald's 1979 winning work Offshore). [8] Orbital was the first novel set in space to win the Booker Prize. [8]
The 2024 prize was won by Samantha Harvey for Orbital, the first book set in space to win the prize and, at 136 pages, the second shortest book to win the Booker [53] after Penelope Fitzgerald's Offshore. Harvey was also the first woman to win the Booker since 2019 [54].
Indexes ended lower on Thursday as traders focused on the coming jobs report. The data is expected to show the US economy added 214,000 new hires, a steep uptick from October's reading.
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The Means of Escape is a 2000 short story collection by Penelope Fitzgerald, published shortly after her death. It was first issued as a series of eight (later eleven) stories, most of which were first published between 1975 and 1998.