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Graham Swift (Hardcover)
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Graham Swift (Hardcover)
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 in 1996. This
study covers all of his novels to date (including his latest, The
Light of Day) and is the first critical monograph on him to appear
so far. It offers a close reading of each novel, exploring their
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 nuclear holocaust, we approach 'the End of History' and
only 'telling stories' seems to offer solace.
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