Waterland / Last Orders - Brossura

Swift, Graham

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0330481436 ISBN 13: 9780330481434

Casa editrice: Picador, 1999

Riassunto

In Waterland, Tom Crick, a history teacher in the Fenlands, is driven by a marital crisis and the provocation of one of his pupils to forsake his teaching and relate the story of his family, who have lived in the Fens since the eighteenth century. In Last Orders, four men once close to jack Dodds, a London butcher, meet to carry out his peculiar last wish: to have his ashes scattered into the sea. For reasons best known to herself, Jack's widow, Amy, declines to join them. On the surface the tale of a simple if increasingly bizarre day's outing, Last Orders is Graham Swift's most poignant exploration of the complexity and courage of ordinary lives.

Su questo libro

Descrizione del libro:

Two extraordinary novels from the Booker Prize-winning author Graham Swift

L'autore:

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.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Picador
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0330481436
• ISBN 13: 9780330481434
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 672