The men and women in these spare, Kafkaesque stories are engaged in struggles that are no less brutal because they are fought by proxy. In Graham Swift's taut prose, these quiet combative relationships--between a mismatched couple; an aging doctor and his hypochondriacal patient; a teenage refugee swept up in the conflict between an oppressively sentimental father and his rebellious son--become a microcosm for all human cruelty and need. "Swift proves throughout this ambitious collection that he is a master of his language and the construction of provocative situations."--"Houston...
The men and women in these spare, Kafkaesque stories are engaged in struggles that are no less brutal because they are fought by proxy. In Graham Swif...
The Sweet-Shop Owner is set during a single June day in the life of an outwardly unremarkable man whose inner world proves to be exceptionally resonant. As he tends to his customers, Willy Chapman, the sweet-shop owner, confronts the specters of his beautiful and distant wife and his clever, angry daughter, the history through which he has passed, and the great, unrequited passion that has tormented him for forty years.
The Sweet-Shop Owner is set during a single June day in the life of an outwardly unremarkable man whose inner world proves to be exceptionally ...
Dazzling in its structure and shattering in its emotional force, Graham Swift's Ever After spans two centuries and settings from the adulterous bedrooms of postwar Paris to the contemporary entanglements in the groves of academe. It is the story of Bill Unwin, a man haunted by the death of his beautify wife and a survivor himself of a recent brush with mortality. And although it touches on Darwin and dinosaurs, bees and bridge builders, the true subject of Ever After is nothing less than the eternal question, "Why should things matter?" "Ever After is explicitly concerned with historical...
Dazzling in its structure and shattering in its emotional force, Graham Swift's Ever After spans two centuries and settings from the adulterous bedroo...
Out of This World interweaves the history of a blighted family with the tragic and ludicrous history of the twentieth century. Its alternating narrators are a father and daughter--each obsessed with the other and irrevocably estranged--surveying their losses and grievances on opposite sides of the Atlantic. "A moving, ingenious and often very funny tale that takes us deep into his characters' wounded, resilient hearts with breathtaking virtuosity...rich, complicated, joyful, arresting."--USA Today
Out of This World interweaves the history of a blighted family with the tragic and ludicrous history of the twentieth century. Its alternating ...
Ein gefährlich guter Roman über die Trennlinie zwischen Liebe und Mord. "Das schlichteste, aber auch unglaublichste Buch dieser Saison." Thomas Steinfeld in der "Süddeutschen Zeitung"
Ein gefährlich guter Roman über die Trennlinie zwischen Liebe und Mord. "Das schlichteste, aber auch unglaublichste Buch dieser Saison." Thomas Stei...
On an autumn day in 2006, on the Isle of Wight, Jack Luxton once a Devon farmer, now the proprietor of a seaside caravan park receives the news that his brother, Tom, not seen for years, has been killed in combat in Iraq. For Jack and his wife, Ellie, this will have unexpected, far-reaching effects. For Jack in particular it means a crucial journey: to receive his brother s remains and to confront his most secret, troubling memories. A hauntingly intimate, deeply compassionate story about things that touch and test our...
A Washington Post Notable Work of Fiction
On an autumn day in 2006, on the Isle of Wight, Jack Luxton once a Devon farmer, now...
"Eine hervorragende Beschreibung von England, eine bemerkenswerte Sicht auf das Land und die exzentrische und eigensinnige Mentalität seiner Bewohner." The Times
"Eine hervorragende Beschreibung von England, eine bemerkenswerte Sicht auf das Land und die exzentrische und eigensinnige Mentalität seiner Bewohner...
Sie sind Freunde, besuchen denselben Pub, sind einander nah, aber nicht so, dass es wehtun könnte. Am Morgen treffen sie sich, um die Asche ihres Freundes ins Meer streuen ....
Sie sind Freunde, besuchen denselben Pub, sind einander nah, aber nicht so, dass es wehtun könnte. Am Morgen treffen sie sich, um die Asche ihres Fre...
