Graham Swift
Graham Swift lives in London and is the author of seven previous novels: On a midsummer's night Paula Hook lies awake; Mike, her husband of twenty-five years, asleep beside her; her teenage twins, Nick and Kate, sleeping in nearby rooms. The next ... [... more]
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Last Orders
 Amazon.com Review: From the author of Waterland and Ever After, Last Orders is a quiet but dazzling novel about a group of men, friends since the Second World War, whose lives revolve around work, family, the racetrack, and their favorite pub. When one [... more]
$34.95
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Waterland (Spanish Edition)
The world is flat: Graham Swift's much praised novel about the natural and social history of East Anglia is beautifully constructed, and manages to sustain a great deal of suspense from chapter to chapter among many divergent plotlines, all the while [... more]
$30.20
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Ever After
... and Even Beyond: What a poignant and eloquent account of life (or at least the illusion of being alive) by an obviously seasoned and sensitive artist! Swift describes the sublimely vivid yet hazy realizations about a bookish yet intuitive academic's [... more]
$15.95
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Waterland
The world is flat: Graham Swift's much praised novel about the natural and social history of East Anglia is beautifully constructed, and manages to sustain a great deal of suspense from chapter to chapter among many divergent plotlines, all the while [... more]
$14.95
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Learning to Swim: And Other Stories
Book Description: Cambridge Literature is a series of literary texts edited for study by students aged 14-18 in English-speaking classrooms. It will include novels, poetry, short stories, essays, travel-writing and other non-fiction. The series will be [... more]
$15.00
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The Light of Day: A Novel
Two adjectives: trite and pretentious: This is how the book is written. The whole thing. Like this. Like this makes it deep. A story worthy of maybe twenty-five pages, parceled our in over three hundred. Little snippets. As if that makes the trite tale [... more]
$13.00
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The Sweet-Shop Owner
Touching, tragic examination of an ostensibly modest life: Perhaps more than any other English-speaking author, Graham Swift is able to capture the poignancy, the thwarted emotions, and the poetry which can lie behind seemingly mundane lives. Although [... more]
$13.00
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Last Orders
Amazon.com Review: From the author of Waterland and Ever After, Last Orders is a quiet but dazzling novel about a group of men, friends since the Second World War, whose lives revolve around work, family, the racetrack, and their favorite pub. When one [... more]
$13.95
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Shuttlecock
A magnificent book. Grippin, enthralling & completely unique: Following Graham Swift's well-deserved successes with Waterland & Last Orders, I'm amazed this book remains virtually unknown. It is one of my all-time favourites, repaying multiple [... more]
$15.00
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The Light of Day
Amazon.com Review: In The Light of Day, Booker Prize-winning author Graham Swift takes readers into the mind of an ex-cop turned private investigator, who mulls over his relationship with a former client jailed for murdering her husband. In classic noir [... more]
$24.00
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Tomorrow
dripping with sentimentality: First let me say that I only finished this book because I was listening to it on CD and was on a long car ride with nothing else to listen to. Otherwise I would have abandoned it after chapter 2. The first half of this book [... more]
$23.95
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