Summary
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 1996
The classic edition of one of the 20th Century’s finest novels
Four men once close to Jack Dodds, a London butcher, meet to carry out his peculiar last wish: to have his ashes scattered into the sea at Margate. For reasons best known to herself, Jack’s widow, Amy, declines to join them … On the surface a simple tale of an increasingly bizarre day’s outing, this Booker-prize winning, internationally acclaimed nov…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781471192050 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1471192059 |
| Author: | Graham Swift |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster Ltd |
| Imprint: | Scribner UK |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 1 January 2020 |
| Weight: | 508g |
| Dimensions: | 32mm x 135mm x 216mm |
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Graham Swift
Graham Swift was born in 1949. He is the author of eleven novels, most recently Here We Are; three collections of short stories, including the highly praised England and Other Stories; and Making an Elephant, a book of essays, portraits, poetry and reflections on his life in writing.
With Waterland he won the Guardian Fiction Prize and with Last Orders the Booker Prize. Mothering Sunday became a worldwide bestseller and won the Hawthornden Prize for best work of imaginative literature. All three novels were made into films. His books have appeared in over thirty-five languages.
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