Margaret Drabble
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"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,...
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 329
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
In three classic works, a time traveler finds a strange new world in the year 802,700; a scientist attempts to fulfill his evil desires after becoming invisible; and an astronomer fights for survival after Martians invade Earth.