England : and Other Stories / Graham Swift.
By: Swift, Graham.
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BookPublisher: Toronto : Random House of Canada, 2015; New York : Vintage Book, 2016Description: 237 p.; 22 cm. 20 cm.ISBN: 9780345815118 (hardcover) :; 9780345815132 (pbk.).Subject(s): England -- FictionGenre/Form: Short stories.Summary: These 25 new short stories, written to go together and none of them previously published, mark Booker Prize-winning Graham Swift's return to the short form after 7 acclaimed novels, and affirm him as a master storyteller. Swift's ENGLAND is a richly peopled country that is both a crucible of history and a maze of contemporary confusions. He steers us effortlessly from the Civil War to the present day, and the secret dramas contained within walls, rooms, homes, workplaces. With his remarkable sense of place and voice, he charts an intimate geography that moves us profoundly and yet at times makes us laugh out loud.
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| F Swi Shuttlecock / | F Swi Ever after / | F Swi Le pays des eaux / | F Swi England : | F Swi Wish you were here / | F Tai The best thing that | F Tal Sing it to her bones : |
These 25 new short stories, written to go together and none of them previously published, mark Booker Prize-winning Graham Swift's return to the short form after 7 acclaimed novels, and affirm him as a master storyteller. Swift's ENGLAND is a richly peopled country that is both a crucible of history and a maze of contemporary confusions. He steers us effortlessly from the Civil War to the present day, and the secret dramas contained within walls, rooms, homes, workplaces. With his remarkable sense of place and voice, he charts an intimate geography that moves us profoundly and yet at times makes us laugh out loud.
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