Waterland - Brossura

Swift, Graham

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0679309373 ISBN 13: 9780679309376

Casa editrice: Vintage Canada, 1998

Riassunto

Shortlisted for the Booker, winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize

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Recensione

"Perfectly controlled, superbly written -- Waterland is original, compelling and narration of the highest order." -- The Guardian (U.K.)

"Swift spins a tale of empire-building, land reclamation, brewers and sluice-minders, bewhiskered Victorian patriarchs, insane and visionary relicts.... I can't remember when I read a book of such strange, insidious, unsettling power with a more startling cast of characters." -- Books and Bookmen (U.K.)

"Teems with energy, fertility, violence, madness -- demonstrates the irrepressible, wide-ranging talent of this young British writer." -- Washington Post Book World

"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." -- The New York Review of Books

"Waterland appropriates the Fens as Moby Dick did whaling or Wuthering Heights the moors -- a beautiful, serious, and intelligent novel, admirably ambitious and original." -- The Observer (U.K.)

"Rich, ingenious, inspired." -- The New York Times

L'autore

Graham Swift is the author of six novels, including the Booker Prize-winning Last Orders. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages. He lives in London, England.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Vintage Canada
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0679309373
• ISBN 13: 9780679309376
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 368