Learning to Swim and Other Stories

Swift, Graham

ISBN 10: 0671546139 / ISBN 13: 9780671546137

Edité par Poseidon Press, New York, NY, 1982

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New York, NY, Poseidon Press, 1982. First edition. 8vo. Light gray cloth over dark gray boards, with dark gray lettering on spine, matching dark gray endpapers, pictorial dust jacket, 189 pp. Graham Swift writes movingly of the enclosed worlds in which we confine our lives, of hotel rooms and marriage beds of claustrophobic relationships, of ghosts from the past which hold the present and future hostage and he also presents the hopeful images of escape and redemption. Wrinkle on back of dust jacket, but this is a new, unread book, in near fine dust jacket, protected by a mylar cover.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Learning to Swim and Other Stories
• Éditeur: Poseidon Press, New York, NY
• Date de parution: 1982
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0671546139
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780671546137
• Reliure: Quarter Cloth
• Édition: First Edition
• État de l'article: New
• État de la jaquette: Near Fine
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Literature and Fiction
  • Rare Literature and Fiction

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Synopsis

Book by Swift Graham

Présentation de l'éditeur

The men and women in these spare, Kafkaesque stories are engaged in struggles that are no less brutal because they are fought by proxy. In Graham Swift's taut prose, these quiet combative relationships--between a mismatched couple; an aging doctor and his hypochondriacal patient; a teenage refugee swept up in the conflict between an oppressively sentimental father and his rebellious son--become a microcosm for all human cruelty and need.

"Swift proves throughout this ambitious collection that he is a master of his language and the construction of provocative situations."-- Houston Chronicle