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- Synopsis
- A collection of new stories from the Booker-prize winning author of Last Orders and Waterland; 'a powerful statement about English ways of life and death' Independent on Sunday Meet Dr Shah, who has never been to India, and Mrs Kaminski, on her way to Poland via A&E. Meet Holly and Polly, who have come to their own Anglo-Irish understanding; Charlie and Don, who have seen the docks turn into Docklands; Daisy Baker, terrified of Yorkshire; and Johnny Dewhurst, stranded on Exmoor. Binding these stories together is Graham Swift's affectionate but unflinching instinct for the story of us all: an evocation of that mysterious body that is a nation, deepened by the palpable sense of our individual bodies finding or losing their way in the nationless territory of birth, ageing, sex and death.'England writ large. Swift's England is one pulsating with its past ... his protagonists the everymen and women who make up this country' Observer 'Ordinary lives become extraordinary in Graham Swift's powerful stories' Sunday Times 'Beautifully realised. An intimate, quirky and affectionate tour of Everyman's England' The Times 'Elegant, humble, and humane ... A coherent, powerful statement about English ways of life and death' Independent on Sunday
- Copyright:
- 2014
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781471137426
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781471137419
- Publisher:
- Scribner UK
- Date of Addition:
- 12/02/16
- Copyrighted By:
- Graham Swift
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction
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- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.