Waterland / Graham Swift

By:

Swift, Graham, 1949-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Vintage Books, 1992.Edition: 1st Vintage international editionDescription: 358 pages ; 21 cmISBN:

0679739793

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Psychological fiction.

DDC classification:

823.914 20

LOC classification:

PR6069.W47 W3 1992

Summary: Set in the bleak Fen Country of East Anglia, and spanning some 240 years in the lives of its haunted narrator and his ancestors, Waterland is a book that takes in eels and incest, ale-making and madness, the heartless sweep of history and a family romance as tormented as any in Greek tragedy. "" Waterland , like the Hardy novels, carries with all else a profound knowledge of a people, a place, and their interweaving ... Swift tells his tale with wonderful contemporary verve and verbal felicity ... A fine and original work.""-- Los Angeles Times.

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Originally Published by William Heinemann Ltd, Great Britain, in 1983.

Set in the bleak Fen Country of East Anglia, and spanning some 240 years in the lives of its haunted narrator and his ancestors, Waterland is a book that takes in eels and incest, ale-making and madness, the heartless sweep of history and a family romance as tormented as any in Greek tragedy. "" Waterland , like the Hardy novels, carries with all else a profound knowledge of a people, a place, and their interweaving ... Swift tells his tale with wonderful contemporary verve and verbal felicity ... A fine and original work.""-- Los Angeles Times.

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