TY - BOOK AU - Roberts,Michèle TI - The book of Mrs Noah T2 - Methuen modern fiction SN - 041358190X U1 - 823.914 PY - 1988/// CY - London PB - Methuen KW - Women KW - Fiction N2 - A woman visiting Venice fantasizes that she is Mrs Noah. Her Ark, a vast, form shifting construct of the imagination, is a water-borne library moored somewhere in the Lagoon, repository not only of creatures but of the entire knowledge of the human race. Travelling with her on her journey of self-exploration and survival are five story-telling Sybils, each representing a different aspect of woman's experience down the centuries. Listening to these dark, funny, beautifully narrated tales - often of oppression - is the Gaffer, a rakish old man with much to learn ER -