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Graham Swift (Paperback, New edition)
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Graham Swift (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Writers and Their Work
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Graham Swift is among the foremost contemporary British writers,
having published seven highly acclaimed novels which are widely
read by students and general public alike. Waterland has become a
modern classic, and Last Orders won the Booker prize for fiction in
2006. This study covers all Swift's novels to The Light of Day: it
offers a close reading of each of the novels, exploring the
innovative formal strategies and identifying such recurrent themes
as the presence of the past in the present, the blurring of
distinctions between 'history' and 'story', fact and fiction, and
the possibilities of redemption in a contemporary social and
emotional wasteland. For the most part set in an urban,
middle-class, claustrophobic and loveless present, and focused on
usually fraught relationships between husbands and wives, parents
and children, these recognisably postmodern novels are seen here as
symptomatic of contemporary Britain: a world where, in the shadow
of the nuclear holocaust, we approach 'the End of History, and only
'telling stories' seems to offer solace.
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