Waterland
$30.79
- Hardcover
408 pages
- Release Date
15 November 2013
Summary
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.
“Waterland, like the Hardy novels, carries with all else a profound knowledge of a people, a place, and their interweaving…. Swift tells his tale with wonderful contemporary verve and verbal feli…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781841593562 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1841593567 |
| Author: | Graham Swift |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 408 |
| Release Date: | 15 November 2013 |
| Weight: | 475g |
| Dimensions: | 25mm x 135mm x 210mm |
| Series: | Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics |
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Graham Swift
Graham Swift was born in 1949 and is the author of eight acclaimed novels and a collection of short stories; his most recent work is 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.
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