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England and Other Stories (Paperback)
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England and Other Stories (Paperback)
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List price R315
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A collection of new stories from the Booker-prize winning author of
Last Orders, and of the Sunday Times bestseller Mothering Sunday.
Meet Dr Shah, who has never been to India, and Mrs Kaminski, on her
way to Poland via A&E. Meet Holly and Polly, who have come to
their own Anglo-Irish understanding; Charlie and Don, who have seen
the docks turn into Docklands; Daisy Baker, terrified of Yorkshire;
and Johnny Dewhurst, stranded on Exmoor. Binding these stories
together is Graham Swift's affectionate but unflinching instinct
for the story of us all: an evocation of that mysterious body that
is a nation, deepened by the palpable sense of our individual
bodies finding or losing their way in the nationless territory of
birth, ageing, sex and death. Praise for Mothering Sunday: 'Bathed
in light; and even when tragedy strikes, it blazes irresistibly...
Swift's small fiction feels like a masterpiece' Guardian 'Alive
with sensuousness and sensuality ... wonderfully accomplished, it
is an achievement' Sunday Times 'From start to finish Swift's is a
novel of stylish brilliance and quiet narrative verve. The archly
modulated, precise prose (a hybrid of Henry Green and Kazuo
Ishiguro) is a glory to read. Now 66, Swift is a writer at the very
top of his game' Evening Standard 'Mothering Sunday is a powerful,
philosophical and exquisitely observed novel about the lives we
lead, and the parallel lives - the parallel stories - we can never
know ... It may just be Swift's best novel yet' Observer
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