Learning to Swim: And Other Stories

Swift, Graham

ISBN 10: 0679739785 / ISBN 13: 9780679739784

Editore: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1992

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Titolo: Learning to Swim: And Other Stories

Casa editrice: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Data di pubblicazione: 1992

Legatura: Brossura

Condizione: Very Good

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Riassunto:

The men and women in these spare, Kafkaesque stories are engaged in struggles that are no less brutal because they are fought by proxy. In Graham Swift's taut prose, these quiet combative relationships--between a mismatched couple; an aging doctor and his hypochondriacal patient; a teenage refugee swept up in the conflict between an oppressively sentimental father and his rebellious son--become a microcosm for all human cruelty and need.

"Swift proves throughout this ambitious collection that he is a master of his language and the construction of provocative situations."--Houston Chronicle

L'autore:

Graham Swift was born in 1949 and is the author of ten novels, three collections of short 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 Award, and with Last Orders the Booker Prize. Both novels have since been made into films. His work has been translated into more than 30 languages.