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Waterland (Birthday Edition)

Waterland (Birthday Edition)

by Graham Swift (Author)

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    Paperback 2002

    $3.39

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    Paperback 1984

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    Paperback 1995

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Synopsis

First published in 1983, Graham Swift's multilayered chronicle set in the Cambridgeshire Fens is widely regarded as one of the finest British novels of the 1980s. Tom Crick is a history teacher, but the history that absorbs him is his own and his family's. The past, with its secrets and oddities, hangs heavy on him, pushing him towards a heartbreaking new crisis in his life. Swift's powerful psychological drama takes in life and death, betrayal and compassion; his setting, the brooding landscape of the marshy Fens, is utterly compelling.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 368
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Picador
Published: 06 Sep 2002
ISBN 10: 0330491873
ISBN 13: 9780330491877
Book Overview: Graham Swift's other novels include The Sweet Shop Owner , Shuttlecock , Out of this World , Ever After and Last Orders , winner of the 1996 Booker Prize and now a film. He has also published a collection of short stories entitled Learning to Swim .

Media Reviews
'The tale Swift tells is at once a history of England, a Fenland documentary, and a fictional autobiography... Waterland appropriates the Fens as Moby Dick did whaling or Wuthering Heights the moors. This is a beautiful, serious and intelligent novel, admirably ambitious and original' OBSERVER
Author Bio
Graham Swift was born in 1949 and is the author of many acclaimed novels, two collections of short stories (England and Other Stories, and Learning to Swim and Other Stories) and Making an Elephant, a book of essays, portraits, poetry and reflections on his life in writing. With Waterland he won the Guardian Fiction Prize (1983), and with Last Orders the Booker Prize (1996). Both novels have since been made into films. Graham Swift's work has appeared in over thirty languages.