LEARNING TO SWIM AND OTHER STORIES

Swift, Graham

ISBN 10: 0330324845 / ISBN 13: 9780330324847

Editore: Pan Books Ltd./Picador, London, 1993

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A pristine book that appears UNREAD. The first collection of short stories from the Booker Prize winning author of "Last Orders." Taut prose, spare, Kafkaesque like stories about men and women who are engaged in struggles ., 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.

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• Titolo: LEARNING TO SWIM AND OTHER STORIES
• Editore: Pan Books Ltd./Picador, London
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0330324845
• ISBN 13: 9780330324847
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Edizione: First Edition
• Condizione: Fine
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: Fine

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Riassunto

From the claustrophobias of hotel rooms to the fragile protectiveness of a doctor's surgery or the sanctuary of a special garden shed, these stories explore the enclosed worlds in which we confine our lives. By the author of "Waterland" which won "The Guardian" Fiction Award.

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.