| Moon Tiger Contributor(s): Lively, Penelope (Author) |
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ISBN: 0802135331 ISBN-13: 9780802135339 Publisher: Grove Press OUR PRICE: $15.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1997 Annotation: The last thoughts of a dying writer are captured in this intelligent novel by Booker Prize-winner Penelope Lively. The moving and poignant story of life as a writer, historian, and mother ends as a saga of unfufilled love. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Romance - General - Fiction | Psychological |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 87023798 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.4" W x 8.2" (0.50 lbs) 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Winner of the Man Booker Prize and Shortlisted for the Golden Man Booker Prize The elderly Claudia Hampton, a best-selling author of popular history; lies alone in a London hospital bed. Memories of her life still glow in her fading consciousness, but she imagines writing a history of the world. Instead, Moon Tiger is her own history, the life of a strong, independent woman, with its often contentious relations with family and friends. At its center -- forever frozen in time, the still point of her turning world -- is the cruelly truncated affair with Tom, a British tank commander whom Claudia knew as a reporter in Egypt during World War II. |