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Moon tiger
Claudia, a best-selling writer, recalls her life of adventure as a newspaper correspondent, novelist, lover, and mother, while the people close to her file past her hospital bed.
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.
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.
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.
Item details
- ISBN: 9780802135339
- ISBN: 0802135331
- ISBN: 9780802110275
- ISBN: 0802110274
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Physical Description:
208 pages ; 22 cm
print - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Grove Press, 1988.
- Copyright: ©1987
Contents / Notes
| General Note: | "First published in Great Britain by André Deutsch Limited" Title page verso. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
| Awards Note: | Man Booker Prize for Fiction, 1987. |
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| Genre: | Historical fiction. Psychological fiction. Historical fiction. Psychological fiction. Fiction. Historical fiction. Psychological fiction. Historical fiction. Psychological fiction. |
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