num_pages: 140
description: On the Battersea Reach of the Thames, a mixed bag of the slightly disreputable, the temporarily lost, and the patently eccentric live on houseboats, rising and falling with the great river’s tides. Belonging to neither land nor sea, they cling to one another in a motley yet kindly society. There is Maurice, by occupation a male prostitute, by happenstance a receiver of stolen goods. And Richard, a buttoned-up ex-navy man whose boat dominates the Reach. Then there is Nenna, a faithful but abandoned wife, the diffident mother of two young girls running wild on the waterfront streets.It is Nenna’s domestic predicament that, as it deepens, draws the relations among this scrubby community together into ever more complex and comic patterns.An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here
language: English
title: Offshore
titlecomplete: Offshore
genres: Classics, British Literature, Novella, Novels, 20th Century, Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Womens
ratings_count: 6549
places: London, England
awards: awardedAt: 284025600000
name: Booker Prize
publisher: Harper Perennial