Summary
The Booker Shortlisted Modern Classic from the author of Last Orders, Mothering Sunday and Here We Are
One summer morning in 1943, lock-keeper Henry Crick finds the drowned body of a sixteen-year-old boy. Nearly forty years later, his son Tom, a history teacher, is driven by a bizarre marital crisis and the provocation of one of his students to forsake the formal teaching of history—and tell stories …
Waterland is a classic of modern fiction: a vision of England seen …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781471187322 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1471187322 |
| Author: | Graham Swift |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster Ltd |
| Imprint: | Scribner UK |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 512 |
| Release Date: | 1 February 2020 |
| Weight: | 464g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 36mm |
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About The Author
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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