List Appertaining To Books Moon Tiger
| Title | : | Moon Tiger |
| Author | : | Penelope Lively |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 224 pages |
| Published | : | September 18th 1997 by Grove Press (first published 1987) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction |
Penelope Lively
Paperback | Pages: 224 pages Rating: 3.83 | 11667 Users | 991 Reviews
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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.Define Books Conducive To Moon Tiger
| Original Title: | Moon Tiger |
| ISBN: | 0802135331 (ISBN13: 9780802135339) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Claudia Hampton |
| Literary Awards: | Booker Prize (1987), Golden Man Booker Prize Nominee (2018) |
Rating Appertaining To Books Moon Tiger
Ratings: 3.83 From 11667 Users | 991 ReviewsCommentary Appertaining To Books Moon Tiger
As soon as I read the synopsis of Moon Tiger I knew I was going to enjoy it. An elderly woman in her hospital bed, dying of cancer, recaps the story of her life, and a very interesting life at that. I liked Claudia very much. She had her faults but she was also captivating, intelligent and larger than life. The author writes beautifully and her descriptions of Egypt made me feel as if I was there. The piece towards the end when Claudia reads Tom's description of the war in the desert is an[U]nless I am a part of everything I am nothing.We are like waves in a vast ocean moving forward to break upon the shore and vanish, yet the ocean remains. Each wave has its own narrative, each person a starring role in the story of their own lives, yet all of us are a collective ocean of minor and major roles coming and going from the larger narrative of human history. Penelope Livelys Booker Prize winning novel Moon Tiger examines the intimate debris of peoples lives through a sweeping century
[U]nless I am a part of everything I am nothing.We are like waves in a vast ocean moving forward to break upon the shore and vanish, yet the ocean remains. Each wave has its own narrative, each person a starring role in the story of their own lives, yet all of us are a collective ocean of minor and major roles coming and going from the larger narrative of human history. Penelope Livelys Booker Prize winning novel Moon Tiger examines the intimate debris of peoples lives through a sweeping century
This book positively shimmered. I thought about it for days afterward, and not for any specific reason apart from sheer awe at this author's skill. This novel is perhaps the best book I've read all year. Her economy of phrase, wit, and ability to apply a dream-like sheen to a whole compendium of characters makes this book a strange journey, much like an odd dream that you wake up wondering, "was that real?"
This winner of 1987 Man Booker Prize probably should have won many more distinctions. The main character, Claudia, is anything but dull; she is irascible, unapologetic; a woman very much ahead of her time. We are walking lexicons. In a single sentence of idle chatter we preserve Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Norse; we carry a museum inside our heads, each day we commemorate peoples of whom we have never heard. I never cease to wonder at it. That words are more durable than anything, that they blow with
Moon Tiger is a masterfully crafted novel. Unfortunately, this does no good. It tells the story of a terminally ill woman, Claudia Hampton, on her deathbed who tries to summirize her life (I do intent to put things as simple as possible because Moon Tiger has already stolen the show with its complicated narrative). The novel thoroughly explores Claudia Hamptons life from multiple points of view switching between a first-person narrative and a third-person narrative (which, too, does no good
The more I think about and talk about this book, the more impressed I am by it. It won the Man Booker Prize in 1987 but had bad reviews. It was selected as the book from the 1980s to go up for the Golden Man Booker Prize this year, and despite the fact that it didn't ultimately win, I feel like that process put it back on the radar for a lot of us. First I was standing in line waiting for another book to be signed when another reader-podcaster brought it up, and then last night I was having some
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