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These twenty-five new stories mark Graham Swift's return to the short form after seven acclaimed novels and confirm him as a master storyteller. They unite into a richly peopled vision of a country that is both a crucible of history and a maze of contemporary confusions.
Meet Dr Shah who has never been to India and Mrs Kaminski, on her way to Poland via A&E; meet Holly and Polly who have come to their own Anglo-Irish understanding and Lily Hobbs, married to a shirt; Charlie and Don who have seen the docks turn into Docklands; Mr Wilkinson the weirdo next door; Daisy Baker who is terrified of Yorkshire; and Johnny Dewhurst, stranded on Exmoor.
Graham Swift steers us effortlessly from the Civil War to the present day, from world-shaking events to the secret dramas lived out in rooms, workplaces, homes. With his remarkable sense of place, he charts an intimate human geography. In doing so he moves us profoundly, but with a constant eye for comedy.
Binding these stories together is Swift's grasp of the universal in the local and his affectionate but unflinching instinct for the story of us all: an evocation of that mysterious body that is a nation, deepened by the palpable sense of our individual bodies finding or losing their way in the nationless territory of birth, growing up, sex, ageing and death.
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Meet Dr Shah who has never been to India and Mrs Kaminski, on her way to Poland via A&E; meet Holly and Polly who have come to their own Anglo-Irish understanding and Lily Hobbs, married to a shirt; Charlie and Don who have seen the docks turn into Docklands; Mr Wilkinson the weirdo next door; Daisy Baker who is terrified of Yorkshire; and Johnny Dewhurst, stranded on Exmoor.
Graham Swift steers us effortlessly from the Civil War to the present day, from world-shaking events to the secret dramas lived out in rooms, workplaces, homes. With his remarkable sense of place, he charts an intimate human geography. In doing so he moves us profoundly, but with a constant eye for comedy.
Binding these stories together is Swift's grasp of the universal in the local and his affectionate but unflinching instinct for the story of us all: an evocation of that mysterious body that is a nation, deepened by the palpable sense of our individual bodies finding or losing their way in the nationless territory of birth, growing up, sex, ageing and death.
'Swift has involved us in real, lived lives' John Banville
'Swift is an exemplary tour guide of unknown English lives, a penetrating thinker, a wonderful writer' Daily Telegraph
'His particular brilliance lies in his ability to capture the expressiveness of the inarticulate. He does so with an empathy that can move the reader to tears' Times Literary Supplement
'He writes the way that life goes' Anne Enright
'He has an authority - of style, characterisation, grasp on life' Alan Hollinghurst
'Swift is an exemplary tour guide of unknown English lives, a penetrating thinker, a wonderful writer' Daily Telegraph
'His particular brilliance lies in his ability to capture the expressiveness of the inarticulate. He does so with an empathy that can move the reader to tears' Times Literary Supplement
'He writes the way that life goes' Anne Enright
'He has an authority - of style, characterisation, grasp on life' Alan Hollinghurst
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- ÉditeurSimon & Schuster Ltd
- Date d'édition2014
- ISBN 10 1471137392
- ISBN 13 9781471137396
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- Numéro d'édition1
- Nombre de pages288
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