Title: not a dazzler
Product review: I read Offshore in my pursuit of reading all the Booker winners. I was initially intrigued by the premise of getting a view into a community of offbeat characters living on boats in London's Battersea Reach in the early 60's. I was expecting kind of a Bohemian group, but actually the characters are fairly conventional. While the prose is decent, I was never driven to keep reading by character, plot, or theme. It's quite short, so I did finish it, but so little happened in those pages, I would not recommend this book to anyone. I finished the work wondering, "why was this so special? Did I miss something, or was it such a work of the moment that now it has faded?"
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