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The Light of Day

The Light of Day

by Graham Swift (Author)

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    Paperback 2004

    $3.40

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    Paperback 2004

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Synopsis

Sarah is in prison. Every fortnight she is visited by George, the private eye she employed to observe the final stage of her husband's affair. The visits - and the days between - lead George back into Sarah's past and into events he can picture only too well, while bringing him ever closer to a time he can't quite imagine - when she will once again step out into the clear light of day...This is a brilliant tale of love, murder and suspense, from one of Britain's finest writers.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 336
 Edition: First Penguin Edition
 Publisher: Penguin
Published: 06 May 2004
ISBN 10: 0141012013
ISBN 13: 9780141012018

Media Reviews
Swift is at the height of his powers. In this quite dazzling meditation, Swift makes the reader believe anew in the power of love. -- Chicago Tribune
An intense meditation on love and murder. . . . Graham Swift distills emotion and incident into a hypnotic elixir. He is simply one of the most sure-handed, savvy and remarkable writers now at work. - The Washington Post Book World
A virtuosic display of narrative skill. . . . [And] a love story of peculiar poignancy and power. - The Philadelphia Inquirer
Revelatory. . .Swift paints a potent tale of suspense, sex, betrayal and redmption. A poignant meditation on the give and take of love. --Seattle Times
Meticulously crafted, deftly moving back and forth in time to build suspense. -- The New York Times
Takes the conventions of the mystery thriller and turns them inside out. - Chicago Sun-Times
A masterful, first-person narrative about love's sudden revelations and its retributions. . . . Swift delivers another remarkable piece of fiction-one that sticks with you and gnaws on the soul. - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Exquisite . . . Swift is not about to let go until our vision is blurry from lack of oxygen. The fierceness of this chokehold is what makes Swift such an exhilarating writer, such an essential one. - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Swift's hypnotic, elliptical style neatly showcases his characters' psychological depths, yielding a noir-ish stunner shot through with a brutal clarity. - Vanity Fair
Intricate . . . Swift is a virtuoso of narrative ventriloquism; he inhabits his characters through their voices. Swift manages this patterning of motives with exquisite economy. - TheNew York Times Book Review
Affirms the shifting nature of human connections, and uses the mundane details of a single day to explore the broad scopes of love and passion, venality and benevolence. - The Los Angeles Times
Mysterious . . . seductive . . . [filled with] moments of understated metaphorical brilliance. - The Boston Globe
It is Swift's sheer, unstoppable--and at times unfathomable--affection for his characters, his tender feelings towards their everydayness, their ordinariness . . . that makes one follow their stories. -- New York Review of Books

Luminous . . . This taught thriller gradually becomes a fine-tuned investigation of how even our simplest, most personal choices can spiral uncontrollably outward. - People
Filled with intelligent meditations. -- The New Yorker

A heartbreaking story about loving too much, not loving enough, and the hope of redemption from loveless acts. Swift is to be lauded for a fine psychological tale that, with sensitivity and heart, examines the textures of loyalty and love. - Rocky Mountain News
Moving . . . Swift is a master of the mordant line. . . . [He] describes [each episode] with characteristic empathy and a deep, persuasive tact. -- Newsday

The plot and shifts in time are masterfully juggled, with lots of interesting asides. . . . Great sentences and memorable characters make it a good, fast read. - The Capital Times (Wisconsin)
Mr. Swift's revision of a genre is ingenious. -- The New York Sun
Graham Swift is one of a trio of World-class British writers . . . (Martin Amis and Ian McEwan are the others) who are bringing a fierce new energy and edge to thecontemporary novel. [Swift is] a superb stylist, a master of suggestive compression. The Light of Day is at once perfectly balanced and eerily incisive. - Book Magazine (4 stars)
Draws the reader on like the best whodunnit. A profoundly artful, beautifully weighted, resonant and humane literary novel. -- Daily Telegraph
Graham Swift's genius is for putting the strangest of lies into the most provincial of English landscapes. . . . The Light of Day has a brilliantly slow, precise, careful structure [but] the story it has to tell is wildly extreme, sensational and romantic. -- Guardian
A writer of penetrating insight and formidable talent. A beautifully constructed book, which flows musically. The pace is gentle but brilliantly sustained, its association of ideas intricate but achieved with a magically delicate touch. . . . Deserves to be inhaled, greedily, in a single sitting. -- Independent on Sunday
Swift brilliantly explores one man's attempt to reshape his own destiny. The understated simplicity of Swift's writing is artistry of a higher order, seamless prose that leads the reader on a compelling journey of suspense and compassion. -- Mail on Sunday

Swift has the ability to cast a spell over a story, magically illuminating the small details of human interaction and the outside world. The tension is effortlessly sustained. Full of wonderful moments. . . . Does anyone a power of good to read prose of such sensitivity. -- Sunday Express
Author Bio
Graham Swift was born in London in 1949. He is the author of six other novels: The Sweet Shop Owner, Shuttlecock, Waterland, Out of This World, Ever After and Last Orders. He has also published a collection of short stories, Learning To Swim. He lives in London.