cover image Offshore

Offshore

Penelope Fitzgerald. Carroll & Graf Publishers, $7.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-88184-476-4

Here is life among the down, out and quirky, housed precariously in barges on the river Thames. ``With economical prose and wonderfully vivid dialogue,'' Booker Prize-winner Fitzgerald ``fashions a wry, fast-moving story whose ambiguous ending is exactly right,'' said PW. (May)