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| 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) |
Penelope Lively
Paperback | Pages: 224 pages Rating: 3.83 | 11667 Users | 991 Reviews
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| Title | : | Moon Tiger |
| Author | : | Penelope Lively |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 224 pages |
| Published | : | September 18th 1997 by Grove Press (first published 1987) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction |
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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.Rating Based On Books Moon Tiger
Ratings: 3.83 From 11667 Users | 991 ReviewsRate Based On Books Moon Tiger
"Moon Tiger", for which the author won the Booker prize, is a book that I could admire, but not like. The main protagonist, Claudia Hampton, an accomplished historian, lies dying in a London hospital bed and looks back upon her life. The resulting series of first-person flashbacks, interspersed with third-person accounts of the same episodes, coalesce into a tightly constructed kaleidoscopic view of Claudia's life which is impressive for the skill with which it is achieved, but ultimately leftClaudia Hampton speaks to me of wars fought in distant lands, of the ever-persistent forward march of humanity in the quest for collective betterment, of stories unknowingly buried forever in the catacombs of time and never unearthed, of the people we carry in our hearts wherever we go, of the history of the world intertwined with our own. Claudia tries to make sense of the cacophony of voices inside her head and outside, of conflicting opinions colliding violently creating sparks that burn down
This is one of these situations where I just loved this book so much that I don't think my review will be able to contain all my enthusiasm for it. It is only now, I realise how close I came to never reading this. It is not really a book that advertises exactly what it is, (I had vague notions of romance and grumpy old people). It feels somehow eclipsed by other books in the annuls of Booker history. I do feel indignant on behalf of Lively that this book, written a full 5 years before The
An impressive account of war-correspondent and popular-historian Claudia, from her childhood to her death, the story she tells herself in a hospital bed at the end of a long life, its style mimicking the way a person might remember, without it being so-called stream-of-consciousness. Claudias thought processes include eras she didnt live throughthose of Pilgrims and Aztecs, for exampleconnecting those times to herself and to the time she did live through. The narrative also gets handed off in
I liked this when it wasn't posturing. But I felt it postured a lot. And largely fell short of its admirable ambitions. I generally felt Lively is probably a more conservative novelist at heart and this was her attempt at pushing back her boundaries, the literary equivalent of an habitually conventional woman suddenly dyeing her hair jet black and wearing stilettos to the supermarket. It's like the work of a writer who has just read and been shaken out of her comfort zone by Virginia Woolf.
[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
If this novel had not been chosen as the group read for December 2018 by the ManBookering group here on GR, I would have missed this splendid book! It is strange, but I had never heard of Penelope Lively nor of this Booker Prize winner of 1987 and I would surely have forever missed this masterpiece if not for its choice of the group read. I simply adored this book. I cannot express how connected I felt to Claudia, that stubborn woman with a mighty tough attitude. Her story is told in a
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