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| | Graham Swift |
 | | Swift revels in complex narrative strategies; his characters debate, and their accounts reflect, a rejection of the chronologically linear view of narrative. | | | Swift questions the nature of narrative through questioning the reality of history, a theme that is central to Shuttlecock (1981), Waterland (1983), Out of This World (1988), and Ever After (1992). | | | In all these novels Swift considers the nature of the relationship between personal and public histories, between self-created and orderly narratives and the disorderly nature of actuality. |
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http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors?p=auth93&state=index=s
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| | BookPage Interview |
| | Swift explains that his novels spring from "rather fragmentary, incidental images." In the case of Ever After, it was the image of a boy watching through a window as ballerinas practice. | | | A simple balance between one kind of tragedy and another is an inadequate description of Swift's new novel. | | | When he tries to describe the essential Swift subject matter, he suggests that it involves "an interest in how the past informs the present." After a rueful pause he admits, "that's sort of limp, isn't it?" |
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http://www.bookpage.com/BPinterviews/swift492.html
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| | Literary Encyclopedia: Graham Swift |
| | Swift's view of literature can, in part, be drawn from the address he gave in June 1987 to the International Writers' Union. | | | Considering literature as a confessional form which “voices things which cannot be voiced', Swift nevertheless insisted that literary “confession” is, at base, absolutely social: “It is the confessional of society. | | | In Last Orders the emphasis falls on the spirit with which a person finally takes command of, or orders, her or himself in their loving. |
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http://www.literaryencyclopedia.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5071
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| | The Light of Day by Graham Swift, reviews, links and opinions, book club reading suggestions |
| | Swift is a virtuoso of narrative ventriloquism; he inhabits his characters through their voices. | | | We are kept in the dark until Swift's time-frame grants us light, but find so much treasure on the way we hardly notice how many pages pass before we fall upon a scene that partially explains the mystery created several chapters ago. | | | Throughout, Swift keeps the book restrained, hemmed in, buttoned down and in check. |
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http://www.book-club.co.nz/books03/3lightofday.htm
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| | Guardian Unlimited Books By genre Profile: Graham Swift |
| | Swift is in the very early stages of a new book, so one reason for not talking about it "is that it may bear no relationship to what actually emerges," he says. | | | The resemblance goes down to small details, including the use of first names as chapter headings, the use of a one-sentence chapter, the attribution of one chapter to a dead person, and the organisation of a chapter by enumerated points," Frow wrote. | | | However, what sticks in the mind are the individual character portraits, in particular Jack's best friend Ray, whose remarkable ability to pick a winning horse results in the climactic coup de grce. |
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http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,6000,904963,00.html
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| | History, His Story, and Stories in Graham Swift's Waterland |
| | Graham Swift's Waterland (1983), a novel cast in the form of a fictional autobiography, has much to tell us about the fate, even the possibility, of autobiography in the late twentieth century. | | | In the course of telling his story, their story, he questions why we tell stories to ourselves and our children, how the stories we tell relate to those found in literature and history, and what these stories tell us about selves, ourselves. | | | Like Penelope Lively's Moon Tiger (1987), another novel in the form of the autobiography of an invented character, Swift's novel has an historian, Tom Crick, as his protagonist, and like Lively's character, Swift's relates the events of a single life to the major currents of contemporary history. |
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http://members.fortunecity.com/jusdo/HTMLobj-936/waterland.html
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| | Books at Random House of Canada The Light of Day by Graham Swift |
| | "Swift is a virtuoso of narrative ventriloquism; he inhabits his characters through their voices. | | | The Light of Day is a luminous and gripping tale of love, murder and redemption. | | | “This is Graham Swift’s finest work to date: beautifully written, gentle, funny, truthful, touching and profound.” |
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http://www.randomhouse.ca/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679312468
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| | Chemistry - AQA Anthology for GCSE |
| | He was ten at the time of the events in the story, but now seems to have an adult's ability to look back on it and explain what has happened. | | | This guide is written for students and teachers who are preparing for GCSE exams in English literature. | | | Look at details of imagery, language and symbolism. |
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http://www.eriding.net/amoore/anthology/chemistry.htm
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| | Graham Swift -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | In the second half of the 20th century, Billy Graham was known the world over for his entertaining style of evangelism. | | | He proposed, in his own words, “to vex the world rather than divert it.” Instead, people enjoyed his story and gave it to children to read. | | | The greatest written works in one magnificent collection. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9099884?tocId=9099884
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| | Amazon.com: The Sweet-Shop Owner (Vintage International): Books: Graham Swift |
| | This book is one of the best that I have ever read, and I have since devoured everything that he has published. | | | Elizabeth George is my favorite author (I highly recomend reading her book For The Sake Of Elena or Deception On His Mind) so I decided to give him a try. | | | The book chronicles the events of a single day in Willie's life as he goes about the same routine he has established and maintained for almost 40 years. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679739807?v=glance
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| | "Last Orders" by Graham Swift (review by Ann Skea) |
| | The atmosphere he builds up as the book progresses is one of thoughtful reverie, which I found so absorbing that I was irritated by anything which distracted me from the book and broke the spell. | | | But faced with the blunt reality of death, these memories seem like small eddies in the flow of events which have brought them to this present moment. | | | Check out Ann Skea's Homepage and see a description of her book, Ted Hughes: the Poetic Quest. |
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http://www.eclectica.org/v1n2/skea.html
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| | MSN Encarta - Search Results - Swift Graham |
| | Swift, Graham (1949- ), English novelist and short-story writer. | | | Outside Latin America, magic realism has profoundly influenced the work of the Italian Italo Calvino and the Czech Milan Kundera. | | | Born in Catford, London, and educated at Cambridge and York universities, Swift... |
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http://uk.encarta.msn.com/Swift_Graham.html
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| | Last Orders - Graham Swift - Printed Books Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk |
| | London butcher, who meet to carry out his last wish: to have his ashes scattered into the sea. | | | Last Orders - Graham Swift - Printed Books Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk | | | Home > Books and Magazines > Printed Books > Last Orders - Graham Swift |
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http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/printed-books/last-orders-graham-swift
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| | Common Swift - Apus Apus |
| | A pair, presumably the same individuals as in 1999 and 2000, bred again successfully in 2001 raising three young. | | | for the following season when the Swifts first bred. | | | With two cameras, each linked to a TV, Graham was able to closely observe events at the nest. |
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http://www.commonswift.org/colony_Portsmouth.html
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| | Graham Swift Interview with Don Swaim |
| | He considers himself fortunate that he is a full-time writer and does not need a second job. | | | Once a teacher, his book sales rose enough so he no longer needed a second job. | | | Graham Swift, author of The Light of Day, Waterland and Ever After, journeys from London to visit New York for the first time. |
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http://wiredforbooks.org/grahamswift
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Ever After: Books |
| | The airtight plot is both fascinating and extremely well written - it is a self-consciously beautiful piece of writing about love and death, but in the end it is a life-affirming peice of work. | | | Customers who bought books by Graham Swift also bought books by these authors: | | | It may not equal Swift's outstanding acheivment Waterland, but it follows the same lines and at times is more pounding and emotional than the latter would ever be. |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0330323326
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| | The Light of Day - Graham Swift |
| | His books fit together as well as a perfectly crafted bevelled halving. | | | Can he now have descended to so little, so melodramatic a tale ?" - | | | "Swift's language is almost entirely free of what you might, crudely, call poeticisms, but his compositional method is, I think, exactly that of a poet. |
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http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/swiftg/lightday.htm
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| | Swift, Jonathan - Columbia Encyclopedia article about Swift, Jonathan |
| | During this period he wrote The Battle of the Books, in which he defended Temple's contention that the ancients were superior to the moderns in literature and learning, and A Tale of a Tub, a satire on religious excesses. | | | Swift became a national hero of the Irish with his Drapier Letters (1724) and his bitterly ironical pamphlet A Modest Proposal (1729), which propounds that the children of the poor be sold as food for the tables of the rich. | | | Swift's satirical masterpiece Gulliver's Travels appeared in 1726. |
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http://columbia.thefreedictionary.com/Swift,+Jonathan
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| | Understanding Graham Swift |
| | In separate chapters Malcolm considers each of Swift's seven novels, from The Sweet Shop Owner, published in 1980, through The Light of Day, published in 2003. | | | A comprehensive look at one of Britain's most honored contemporary novelists | | | Malcolm discusses the novelist's use of major twentieth-century historical events to shape and deform the lives of his characters; his focus on the distortions and evasions that characterize the discussion of personal, local, and national histories; and his fascination with the complexities, sufferings, and joys that mark individual lives. |
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http://www.sc.edu/uscpress/2003/3515.html
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| | 'The Light of Day' by Graham Swift |
| | Swift's hero gains understanding one sentence fragment at a time | | | Swift, however, never deviates from the axis of memory and morality, so much so that this book can feel hermetic at times. | | | Most of its sentences are not sentences at all but fragments -- shards, really -- of a man's shattered thought processes. |
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http://www.post-gazette.com/books/reviews/20030511swift0511p5.asp
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| | Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Swift, Graham at Epinions.com |
| | Swift goes one step further in showing us the truth lying underneath this facade. | | | I think of this novel as a painting. | | | Swift's traditional technique of juxtaposing present and past comes into play yet again: in this novel, the protagonist seeks reconciliation with his personal history. |
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http://www.epinions.com/book-review-19F4-34C4083-39336248-prod5
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| | Graham Swift |
| | His work has been translated into more than twenty languages. | | | Graham Swift is the author of the Booker Prize-winning Last Orders. |
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http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/s/graham-swift
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| | Saying Good-bye: Graham Swift's Last Orders |
| | In an interview on the website book page, Graham Swift suggests that "real optimism only comes when you’ve looked at the darkness." He’s speaking about his novel Ever After, but this philosophy is also manifest in his Booker prize winning novel Last Orders. | | | British Literature - Saying Good-bye: Graham Swift's Last Orders - http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/british_literature/90622 | | | For a complete listing of article comments, questions, and other discussions related to Pamela St. Clair's British Literature topic, please visit the Discussions page. |
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http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/british_literature/90622
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| | Office of Public Affairs at Yale - News Release |
| | He will read from "The Light of Day," his latest novel and his first in seven years. | | | New Haven, Conn. -- Graham Swift, one of Britain's leading writers, will read from his own work at Yale's Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, 121 Wall St., May 7 at 4 p.m. | | | Swift is the author of seven books, including "Shuttlecock," "Waterland," "Ever After" -- winner of the Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger (Best Foreign Book Prize) in France in 1992 -- and "Last Orders," for which he won the 1996 Booker Prize. |
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http://www.yale.edu/opa/newsr/03-05-01-02.all.html
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| | Graham Swift Biography |
| | The Nature and Purpose of Story as Presented in the Novel. | | | History, His Story, and Stories in Graham Swift's Waterland | | | Swift’s first novel, The Sweet-Shop Owner, was published in 1980 and records the memories of a dying shopkeeper. |
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http://www.enotes.com/waterland/16315
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| | AMERICAN CHE MICAL SOCIETY |
| | The minutes of the fall meeting last year were approved as presented by the secretary-treasurer. | | | Graham will resolve these by the Chicago meeting this fall. | | | Anna will inform Graham what revenues have been received and the report will be corrected to reflect these additions. |
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http://membership.acs.org/b/btec/minutes/btec-minutes1apr01.html
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| | Last Orders - Graham Swift - Used Books |
| | Swift's most remarkable gift is his ability to make the reader share them too." -- Caroline Moore | | | Swift's first novel since his highly acclaimed Ever After is a subtle yet piercing story about the ways in which friendship and love are shaped by the past and by fate. | | | Last Orders - Graham Swift - Used Books |
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http://www.biblio.com/books/isbnnu/21896945.html
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| | Graham Swift Quotations |
| | All quotations remain the intellectual property of their originators. | | | They look at each other beadily and inquisitively, and something goes on in their thoughts which must be equivalent to the way dogs and other animals, when they meet, sniff each other's arses and nuzzle each other's fur. | | | Graham Swift (born May 4, 1949) is a well-known British author. |
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http://www.quotationsbook.com/quotes/39491/view
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| | Works Cited in "The Flight from Trauma in Graham Swift's Shuttlecock" |
| | "History and the 'Here and Now': The Novels of Graham Swift." Twentieth Century Literature 35.1 (Spring 1989): 74-88. | | | "'Wedded to the World': Natural and Artificial History in the Novels of Graham Swift." Diss. | | | Kaczvinsky, Donald P. "'For One Thing, There Are the Gaps': History in Graham Swift's Shuttlecock." Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 40.1 (1998): 3-14. |
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http://www.postcolonialweb.org/uk/gswift/shuttle/sc4.html
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| | It is also interesting to note that certain novels which subvert the genres they outwardly subscribe to contain no reference in their titles to their debunking intent. | | | Other works whose titles parody the genre or category whose ranks they ostensibly augment include, to refer only to English fiction, Graham Swift's Learning to Swim (1982), Julian Barnes's A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters (1989), and Jeanette Winterson's Boating for Beginners (1985). | | | Lawrence Norfolk's Lemprière's Dictionary (1991) purloins the title of Charles Lemprière's Classical Dictionary, and the effect created is similar to that which would be produced by a novel calling itself Roget's Thesaurus or Fowler's Modern English Usage. |
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http://www.altx.com/ebr/ebr8/8callus.htm
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| | Last Orders by Graham Swift: Book reviews, book club recommendations and recipes! |
| | Last Orders by Graham Swift: Book reviews, book club recommendations and recipes! | | | Graham Swift's first novel since the highly acclaimed Ever After is a subtle yet deeply felt exploration of the ways in which friendship and love are shaped by the past and by fate. | | | Through conversation and memory they trace the paths they have followed by choice and by accident: through war and its aftermath, through the dramas of their family lives and of their shifting relationships with one another. |
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http://www.wutheringbites.com/read/bookpage2.asp?BookID=612
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| | Secret Curator: A review of The Light of Day by Graham Swift :: The Compulsive Reader :: A Haven for Book Lovers |
| | 'Something comes over us.' we say." This is the violet hour in which the real action of Graham Swift's latest novel, | | | Superficially, if there is such a thing in Graham Swift's work, the story follows a day in the life of George, a former policeman turned detective, turned paramour to a woman serving a life sentence. |
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http://www.compulsivereader.com/html/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=492&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
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| | Waterland - Graham Swift - Printed Books Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk |
| | Home > Books and Magazines > Printed Books > Waterland - Graham Swift | | | The book very sensitively takes the reader through school children's discovery of their sexuality, their tentative initial approach, sexual relationships and, finally, an abortion.The author’s descriptive writing make you feel as if you were watching a movie. | | | Waterland - Graham Swift - Printed Books Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk |
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http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/printed-books/waterland-graham-swift
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| | identity theory interviews graham swift |
| | Graham Swift is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and lives in London with his wife and eventually will begin working on his next novel. | | | In this day we learn of George's childhood, his marriage, his relationship with his daughter, his police career and his love affair with a convicted and imprisoned murderess. | | | Graham Swift was born in London, attended Cambridge University and York University and is the author of seven novels, The Sweet-Shop Owner, Shuttlecock, Waterland, Out of This World, Ever After, Last Orders (which was awarded the Booker Prize in 1996), The Light Of Day and a short story collection, Learning to Swim. |
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http://www.identitytheory.com/interviews/birnbaum114.html
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| | Graham Swift, Ever After: a study in intertextuality |
| | Graham Swift is generally ranged among the less adventurous writers as far as his (knowing) use of intertextuality is concerned: his writings belong to a moderate, 'muted' postmodernism (Broich 1993: 38). | | | Characters are perhaps the main focus in Swift's novels: 'Over all, though, towers Swift's interest in his characters' confessions [...] his deep commitment to viewing them within the historical ties linking past and present' (Higdon 1991: 181). | | | Among his novels which have so far been published (including the most recent one, Last Orders), intertextuality is a striking element only in Waterland (1983) and Ever After (for intertextuality in Waterland, see Bernard 1991). |
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http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/edoc/ia/eese/artic98/jacobm/88_98.html
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| | BBC NEWS Programmes Newsnight Review Graham Swift's The Light Of Day |
| | But Graham Swift has resolutely refused to live up to his surname and has waited seven years after winning the Booker for Last Orders to publish his new novel The Light Of Day. | | | A reading from Graham Swift's new novel about the relationship of a prisoner and a private detective who visits her. | | | The change in time from the events of one day, the flash backs which Graham Swift uses to tell the story of how this peculiar love affair came into being, that is realised with real precision and skill. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/review/2806197.stm
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| | ..: English Story >>> Graham Swift >>> Biography :.. |
| | He began writing stories in his teens; he graduated from Cambridge University and taught English literature at various colleges until he became a full-time writer in 1983. | | | In his new book, "Last Orders," Swift follows a quartet of older men from working-class Bermondsey in South London to the sea at Margate, on a mission to dispose of the ashes of their friend and wartime comrade, a butcher with a troubled family. | | | Though he was born in 1949, most of Graham Swift's fiction touches upon War World II in some way while exploring the larger subject of history, its meaning and its effects upon those who live it. |
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http://www.englishstory.by.ru/swift?extract=1127333192
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| | Last Orders |
| | The film is a very largely faithful adaptation - by the director Fred Schepisi himself - of the novel. | | | For those of us who were there, it is an exercise in nostalgia. | | | Go and see him and the film in that order.Never a masterpiece, Swift's novel, because full of first-rate 'documentary' observation, has all kinds of incidental felicities. |
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http://www.llamagraphics.com/Meadow/Books/bookLastOrders.html
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| | Graham Swift - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | He was born in London, England and educated at Queens' College, Cambridge. | | | Although Swift won the Booker prize for Last Orders in 1996, many consider Waterland to be his premier novel. | | | This page was last modified 11:33, 8 March 2006. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Swift
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| | Granta: Graham Swift |
| | Graham Swift remembers his father and the social layers of south London. | | | Graham Swift's novels include Waterland, Shuttlecock and Last Orders (Picador/Vintage) which won the Booker Prize in 1996. |
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http://www.granta.com/authors/146
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| | BookCrossing The Light of Day by Graham Swift - Review - BookCrossing |
| | Graham Swift's first novel was The Sweet Shop Owner in 1980, followed by Shuttlecock and the Booker-shortlisted Waterland in 1983. | | | Although I can't really say I enjoyed the book, I do appreciate you starting this ring, deebookfairy! | | | Those interested can read the Guardian's review of this book here, the San Francisco Chronicle's here and a March 2003 interview with Graham Swift in the Independent here. |
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http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/1872319/deebookfairy/book_The-Light-of-Day-Graham-Swift
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| | Graham Swift |
| | See: review by Adam Mars-Jones (who, sure as sugar, brings up “the other Graham”) in the Observer. |
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http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/users/bradluen/graham_swift.html
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| | English 24: Last Orders |
| | Writers and Books - overview of Swift's works and questions for Last Orders | | | "One reads a novel such as Graham Swift's Last Orders with a small, still sense of gratitude, somehow heartened that ordinary lives have not been overlooked, small yearnings not gone unrecorded, final wishes not been dismissed." Washington Post Book World | | | Also suggested: Graham Swift's Last Orders : A Reader's Guide, by Pamela Cooper, a professor in UNC's Department of English |
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http://www.unc.edu/courses/2002fall/engl/024/002/lastorders.html
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| | Mystery Guide - Shuttlecock by Graham Swift |
| | Five clerks work in a cavernous room sorting through these files; their supervisor looks down on them from an elevated office with a large window, "a privileged position on a superior level, like that of a bridge on a ship." The clerks draft reports on groups of files that seem to have little in common. | | | In Graham Swift's London, the police collect their files for unsolved and unprosecuted cases in the dead crimes department in a basement near Charing Cross. |
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http://www.mysteryguide.com/bkSwiftShuttlecock.html
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| | Graham Swift |
| | All Literature Awards site contents are copyrighted © 2004 by J M McElligott and may not be published in any form. | | | We take domain name, title, and copyright infringement seriously | | | Last Orders by Graham Swift won the1996 Booker Prize for Fiction |
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http://www.literature-awards.com/authors/graham_swift.htm
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| | Table of contents for Trauma and ethics in the novels of Graham Swift |
| | Table of contents for Trauma and ethics in the novels of Graham Swift : no short-cuts to salvation / Stef Craps. | | | Table of contents for Trauma and ethics in the novels of Graham Swift | | | Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog. |
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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip054/2004028725.html
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