Waterland /
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. "...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Vintage Books,
1992.
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| Edition: | 1st Vintage international edition |
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| Classic Catalogue: | View this record in Classic Catalogue |
| 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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| Item Description: | Originally Published by William Heinemann Ltd, Great Britain, in 1983. |
| Physical Description: | 358 pages ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: | 0679739793 |