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The Light of Day

The Light of Day

by Graham Swift (Author)

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    Paperback 2011

    $3.40
Synopsis

`Deserves to be inhaled greedily in a single sitting' Independent on Sunday

On a cold but dazzling November morning, George prepares to visit Sarah, a prisoner and the woman he loves. As he goes about the business of the day he relives the catastrophic events of exactly two years ago that have both bound them together and kept them apart.

Told in George's plain words but growing deeper with each revelation, The Light of Day is a hauntingly tense yet tender story about discovering the hidden forces inside all of us and the power of such discovery to change everything.

`A masterful combination of character and atmosphere' Observer

`Splendid, superb. An intense meditation. A writer of immense gifts' Washington Post

`A profoundly artful, beautifully weighted, resonant and humane literary novel' Daily Telegraph

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 336
 Publisher: Picador
Published: 03 Jun 2011
ISBN 10: 1447201116
ISBN 13: 9781447201113

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 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.