Offshore

Offshore

Offshore is a novel by Penelope Fitzgerald. It won the Booker Prize for that year. It recalls her time spent on boats in Battersea by the Thames. The novel centralizes around the idea of liminality, expanding upon it to include the notion: 'liminal people,' people who do not belong to the land or the sea, but somewhere in-between. The epigraph, "che mena il vento, e che batte la pioggia, e che s'incontran con si aspre lingue" comes from Canto XI of Dante's Inferno.

quick facts
Author:Penelope Fitzgerald
Genre:Fiction
Year published:1979
Number of editions:13

Honors and Awards

YearAward Won
1979 Man Booker Prize
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YearAward Nomination
1979 Man Booker Prize
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Author of Offshore

Penelope Fitzgerald
Penelope Fitzgerald
December 17, 1916 - April 28, 2000
Birthplace:Lincoln

Penelope Fitzgerald was a Booker Prize-winning English novelist, poet, essayist and biographer. In 2008, The Times included her in a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". In 2012, The Observer named her final novel, The Blue Flower, as one of "The 10 best historical novels". She...
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The Knox Brothers: Edmund, 1881-1971, Dillwyn, 1884-1943, Wilfred, 1886-1950, Ronald, 1888-1957 Non-fiction
Human Voices Fiction
Innocence
The Afterlife
Untitled Novel
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At Freddie's
The golden child
So I have thought of you
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Literary Genres

Fiction
Fiction

Fiction is the form of any narrative or informative work that deals, in part or in whole, with information or events that are not factual, but...
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Frequently Asked Questions

  • Q:
    How long is the book: "Offshore"?
  • A:
    The work consists of 141 pages.
  • Q:
    The work, "Offshore" is of which literary category?
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    "Offshore" contains subject matter categorized: History, British, Great Britain and Russia
  • Q:
    Which year was the title "Offshore" first printed?
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    The book was first published in 1979.
  • Q:
    "Offshore" is of which literary genre?
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    The book is categorized as: Fiction.

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