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'This beautifully balanced novel describes the arrangements, accommodations, pacts and treaties of our ordinary lives' The Times 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, emotionally injured wife -- a bargain based on unexpressed, inexpressible love and on a courageous acceptance of life's deprivation ...threatened only by Dorry, their clever, angry, unforgiving daughter. 'Moving ...Through the succinctly evoked provincial decades one of the engrossing features is the difficulty of love and of communication between generations' London Review of Books 'A remarkable novel ...There is a touch of Joyce in Graham Swift's revelation of the hidden poetry of small men's lives' New York Times Book Review
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The first novel from the Booker Prize-winning author of Last Orders and Waterland.
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.
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- EditorePan Macmillan
- Data di pubblicazione2010
- ISBN 10 0330507877
- ISBN 13 9780330507875
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- LinguaInglese
- Numero di pagine272
- Contatto del produttorenon disponibile
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