Book
The dark flood rises
Record details
- ISBN: 0374134952 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 9780374134952 (hardcover)
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Physical Description:
327 pages ; 24 cm
print - Edition: First American edition.
- Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017.
- Copyright: ©2016
Content descriptions
| Summary, etc.: | "A magnificently mordant reckoning with mortality by the great British novelist Francesca Stubbs has a very full life. A highly regarded expert on housing for the elderly who is herself getting on in age, she drives restlessly round England, which is 'her last love'. She wants to 'see it all before she dies'. Amid the professional conferences she attends, she fits in visits to old friends, brings home-cooked dinners to her ex-husband, texts her son, who is grieving over the sudden death of his girlfriend, and drops in on her daughter, a quirky young woman who lives in a floodplain in the West Country. The space between vitality and morality suddenly seems narrow, but Fran is not ready to settle yet, with a 'cat upon her knee'. She still prizes her 'frisson of autonomy', her belief in herself as a dynamic individual doing meaningful work in the world. This dark and glittering novel moves back and forth between an interconnected group of family and friends in England and a seemingly idyllic expat community in the Canary Islands. It is set against a backdrop of rising flood tides in Britain and the seismic fragility of the Canaries, where we also observe the flow of immigrants from an increasingly war-torn Middle East. With Margaret Drabble's characteristic wit and deceptively simple prose, The Dark Flood Rises enthralls, entertains, and asks existential questions in equal measure. Of course, there is undeniable truth in Francesca's insight: 'Old age, it's a fucking disaster!'"-- |
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| Subject: | Older women Fiction Old age Fiction |
| Genre: | Psychological fiction. |
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- 30 of 30 copies available at Bibliomation.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Ansonia Public Library | FIC DRABBLE, MARGARET (Text) | 34045126308761 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Beekley Community Library - New Hartford | F DRABBLE M (Text) | 32544072446189 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Bentley Memorial Library - Bolton | FIC Dra (Text) | 33160137403435 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Bethel Public Library | F DRABBLE (Text) | 34030137414741 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Brookfield Library | F/DRABBLE (Text) | 34029138761373 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Burnham Library - Bridgewater | FIC DRABBLE (Text) | 36937002145523 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Deep River Public Library | F Drab (Text) | 36039001165196 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Derby Neck Library | FIC DRA (Text) | 34046138178382 | Adult Fantasy | Available | - |
| Derby Public Library | FIC DRA (Text) | 34047137517547 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Douglas Library of Hebron | FIC DRA (Text) | 33400140269021 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
