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Swift, Graham

 
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Synopsis

A novel about a bargain struck between a quiet man who runs a sweet shop and his emotionally damaged wife who has to accept life's deprivations. But it is a bargain that is threatened by their clever, angry and unforgiving daughter. From the author of LAST ORDERS

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Biographie de l'auteur

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.

Présentation de l'éditeur

The Sweet-Shop Owner is set during a single June day in the life of an outwardly unremarkable man whose inner world proves to be exceptionally resonant. As he tends to his customers, Willy Chapman, the sweet-shop owner, confronts the specters of his beautiful and distant wife and his clever, angry daughter, the history through which he has passed, and the great, unrequited passion that has tormented him for forty years.

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