Graham Swift
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Set in the bleak Fen Country of East Anglia, and spanning some 240 years in the lives of its haunted narrator and his ancestors, Waterland is a book that takes in eels and incest, ale-making and madness, the heartless sweep of history and a family romance as tormented as any in Greek tragedy. "Wate...
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Out of This World
Graham Swift
- Knopf doubleday publishing group digital
- 19 Septembre 2012
- 9780307829825
Not a book the reader is likely to forget, Out of this World deserves to be ranked at the forefront of contemporary literature New York Times Book Review In 1972, Robert Beech, First World War survivor and present-day armaments maker, is killed by a car bomb. The event breaks the career of his s...
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The Sweet-Shop Owner
Graham Swift
- Knopf doubleday publishing group digital
- 19 Septembre 2012
- 9780307829818
The first novel from the Booker Prize-winning author of Last Orders and Waterland In the sweet shop Willy Chapman was free, absolved from all responsibility, and he ran his sweet shop like his life quietly, steadfastly, devotedly. It was a bargain struck between Chapman and his beautiful, e...
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Learning to Swim
Graham Swift
- Knopf doubleday publishing group digital
- 19 Septembre 2012
- 9780307829795
An admirable collection. Each story has its subtle nuances of narrative and language which established a quite distinct character. A most impressive work of fiction The Times Graham Swifts taut prose style, natural gift for characterization and tight grasp of the details and complexities of rea...
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Prentis, senior clerk in the dead crimes department of police archives, is becoming more and more confused. Alienated from his wife and children, and obsessed by his father, a wartime hero now the mute inmate of a mental hospital, Prentis feels increasingly unsettled as his enigmatic boss, Mr Qu...
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In the years since its first publication, in 1983, Waterland has established itself as one of the classics of twentieth-century British literature: a visionary tale of Englands Fen country; a sinuous meditation on the workings of history; and a family story startling in its detail and universal in i...
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Wish You Were Here
Swift Graham
- Knopf doubleday publishing group digital
- 17 Avril 2012
- 9780307957665
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