Waterland by Graham Swift
Graham Swift's extraordinary masterpiece--a finalist for the Booker Prize--WATERLAND weaves together eels and incest, ale-making and madness, the heartless sweep of history and a family romance as tormented as Greek tragedy into one epic story.
In the flat, watery Fen Country of East Anglia, a passionate history teacher named Tom Crick is being forced into early retirement from the school where he has taught for thirty years. When a student rebelliously questions the value of the subject to which Tom has devoted his life, Tom responds with his own personal retrospective. His story--intertwined with the stories of the local wetlands, the French Revolution, and World War I, among other things--throws light onto the dark circumstances of the current day, revealing how his wife's tragic youth led to the events surrounding his forced retirement. A monumental tribute to the past, a gripping multigenerational family saga, and a powerful affirmation of the history of self, this exceptional novel illuminates the cycles of time in which we live. Introduction by Tim Bunding
Graham Swift lives in London and is the author of eight novels: The Sweet-Shop Owner; Shuttlecock, which received the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize; Waterland, which was short-listed for the Booker Prize and won The Guardian Fiction Award, the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize and the Italian Premio Grinzane Cavour; Out of This World; Ever After, which won the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger; Last Orders, which was awarded the Booker Prize; The Light of Day; and, most recently, Tomorrow. He is also the author of Learning to Swim, a collection of short stories. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780434753307 |
| ISBN 10 | 0434753300 |
| Title | Waterland |
| Author | Graham Swift |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cornerstone |
| Year published | 1983-10-03 |
| Number of pages | 310 |
| Prizes | Winner of Guardian Fiction Prize 1983, Winner of Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize 1983 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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