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03599aam a22006258i 4500 001 BBDF1C0AF4DE11E6B5721789DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20240315010227 008 160715t20172016nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2016025620 020 $a 0374134952 (hardcover) 020 $a 9780374134952 (hardcover) 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d SKYRV $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PR6054.R25 $b D37 2017 082 00 $a 823/.914 $2 23 100 1 $a Drabble, Margaret, $d 1939- $e author. 245 14 $a The dark flood rises / $c Margaret Drabble. 250 $a First American edition. 263 $a 1702 264 1 $a New York : $b Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $c 2017. 300 $a 327 pages ; $c 23 cm. 520 $a "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!'"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Women $z England $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Aging $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Mortality $v Fiction. 941 $a 27 952 $l ALPE516 $d 20240417013740.0 952 $l GZPE631 $d 20240305013359.0 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20231012022618.0 952 $l KAPF566 $d 20230331013036.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20230104013916.0 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20220909042736.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20220526010321.0 952 $l YCPD572 $d 20220518021236.0 952 $l GEPG771 $d 20210722054035.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20200110070730.0 952 $l D8PD522 $d 20191211012048.0 952 $l AAPF906 $d 20190717033050.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006103718.0 952 $l NDPD953 $d 20180713051535.0 952 $l NUPD663 $d 20180712052932.0 952 $l SDPB094 $d 20180629144524.0 952 $l TRPE062 $d 20180523022215.0 952 $l VXPE964 $d 20180116081832.0 952 $l FYPI314 $d 20180105011537.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20171223031336.0 952 $l CBPF522 $d 20170815011109.0 952 $l TGPD826 $d 20170728031152.0 952 $l FCPB384 $d 20170707013816.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20170418122536.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20170412011226.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20170404011748.0 952 $l T2PB062 $d 20170228154050.0 $m t2pb062 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=BBDF1C0AF4DE11E6B5721789DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search