FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LAST ORDERS AND MOTHERING SUNDAY,
reissued for the first time in Scribner Graham Swift's first
collection of short stories confirms his power to bring an edge of
the extraordinary, the dangerous or the subversive into otherwise
familiar, safe, even comforting settings. On a holiday beach, a
mismatched couple wage a sexually charged war for the devotion of
their literally floundering son. A family doctor, oppressed by his
own domestic insecurities, intimidates an apparent time-wasting
patient. A zookeeper becomes the keeper of a bizarre fixation . . .
While vividly evoking a recognisable English geography, these
startling stories have an eye for the foreign, for the experience
of refugees or for less definable zones of bewilderment and
strangeness. More than one has a touch of the ghostly. Highly
located yet haunted and haunting, they penetrate a hidden world of
human dislocation. 'Graham Swift should be read by everyone with an
interest in the art of the short story' Paul Bailey, Evening
Standard 'A masterful collection of stories' USA Today
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