Making an Elephant: Writing from Within

Swift, Graham

ISBN 10: 0307455750 / ISBN 13: 9780307455758

Edité par VINTAGE, 2010

A propos de cet article

&Uumlber den AutorGraham 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 Book.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Making an Elephant: Writing from Within
• Éditeur: VINTAGE
• Date de parution: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0307455750
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780307455758
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• État de l'article: New

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Synopsis

In his first-ever work of nonfiction, Graham Swift--Booker Prize-winning author of Waterland and Last Orders--gives us a highly personal book: a singular and open-spirited account of a writer's life.

Here Kazuo Ishiguro advises on how to choose a guitar; Salman Rushdie arrives for Christmas under guard; Caryl Phillips shares a beer with the author at a nightclub in Toronto. There are private moments with Swift's father and with his own younger self, as well as musings--on history, memory, and imagination--that illuminate his work. As generous in its scope as it is acute in its observations, Making an Elephant brings together a richly varied selection of essays, portraits, poetry and interviews, full of insights into Swift's passions and motivations, and wise about the friends, family and other writers who have mattered to him over the years.

À propos de l?auteur

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 Étranger; 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.