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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: dark flood rises
  name:
    name part: Drabble, Margaret
    name part: 1939-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2016
    edition: First American edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 327 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: 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, who is grieving over the sudden death of his girlfriend and drops in on her daughter, a quirky young woman who lives in a floodplain in the West Country. The space between vitality and morality suddenly seems narrow, but Fran is not ready to settle yet, with a 'cat upon her knee.' She still prizes her 'frisson of autonomy,' her belief in herself as a dynamic individual doing meaningful work in the world. This dark and glittering novel moves back and forth between an interconnected group of family and friends in England and a seemingly idyllic expat community in the Canary Islands. It is set against a backdrop of rising flood tides in Britain and the seismic fragility of the Canaries, where we also observe the flow of immigrants from an increasingly war-torn Middle East. With Margaret Drabble's characteristic wit and deceptively simple prose, The Dark Flood Rises enthralls, entertains and asks existential questions in equal measure. Of course, there is undeniable truth in Francesca's insight. 'Old age, it's a fucking disaster!'
  note: Margaret Drabble.
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / Literary
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / Contemporary Women
  subject:
    topic: Older women
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Old age
    genre: Fiction
  classification: PR6054.R25 D37 2017
  classification: 823/.914
  identifier: 9780374134952
  identifier: 0374134952
  identifier: 9780374715762
  identifier: 2016025620
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 160715
    record change date: 20211201152410.0
    record identifier: in00003849462