Waterland by Graham Swift
With an introduction by John Burnside.
Graham Swift has mapped his Waterland like a new WessexHe appropriates the Fens as Moby Dick did whaling or Wuthering Heights the moors. This is a beautiful, serious and intelligent novel, admirably ambitious and original * Observer *
Perfectly controlled, superbly written. Waterland is original, compelling and narration of the highest order * Guardian *
A 300-page tour de force . . . A burst of exuberant fictive energy * Evening Standard *
Waterland is 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 * New York Review of Books *
A quite brilliant novel * Daily Telegraph *
Waterland, like the Hardy novels, carries with all else a profound knowledge of a people, a place, and their interweaving . . . Swift tells his tale with wonderful contemporary verve and verbal felicity . . . A fine and original work * Los Angeles Times *
Perfectly controlled, superbly written. Waterland is original, compelling and narration of the highest order * Guardian *
A 300-page tour de force . . . A burst of exuberant fictive energy * Evening Standard *
Waterland is 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 * New York Review of Books *
A quite brilliant novel * Daily Telegraph *
Waterland, like the Hardy novels, carries with all else a profound knowledge of a people, a place, and their interweaving . . . Swift tells his tale with wonderful contemporary verve and verbal felicity . . . A fine and original work * Los Angeles Times *
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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| ISBN 13 | 9781447275503 |
| ISBN 10 | 1447275500 |
| Title | Waterland |
| Author | Graham Swift |
| Series | Picador Classic |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
| Year published | 2015-01-01 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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