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Waterland Graham Swift

Waterland By Graham Swift

Waterland by Graham Swift


$15,99
Condition - Very Good
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Summary

Graham Swift's multilayered chronicle set in the Cambridgeshire Fens is widely regarded as one of the finest British novels of the 1980s.

Waterland Summary

Waterland by Graham Swift

'Perfectly controlled, superbly written. Waterland is original, compelling and narration of the highest order' Guardian

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 England's Fen country; a sinuous meditation on the workings of history; and a family story startling in its detail and universal in its reach.

This edition includes an introduction, by the author, written to celebrate the book's 25th anniversary.

'Graham Swift has mapped his Waterland like a new Wessex. He appropriates the Fens as Moby Dick did whaling or Wuthering Heights the moors. This is a beautiful, serious and intelligent novel, admirably ambitious and original' Observer

'A 300-page tour de force . . . A burst of exuberant fictive energy' Evening Standard

'Waterland is a formidably intelligent book, animated by an impressive, angry pity at what human creatures are capable of doing to one another in the name of love and need. The most powerful novel I have read for some time' New York Review of Books

About Graham Swift

Graham Swift was born in 1949 and is the author of many acclaimed novels, two collections of short stories (England and Other Stories, and Learning to Swim and Other Stories) and Making an Elephant, a book of essays, portraits, poetry and reflections on his life in writing. With Waterland he won the Guardian Fiction Prize (1983), and with Last Orders the Booker Prize (1996). Both novels have since been made into films. Graham Swift's work has appeared in over thirty languages.

Additional information

GOR002150750
9780330518215
0330518216
Waterland by Graham Swift
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Pan Macmillan
20100402
368
N/A
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