England and other stories /
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| Author / Creator: | Swift, Graham, 1949- author. |
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| Uniform title: | Short stories. Selections |
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Imprint: | New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015. |
| Description: | 237 pages ; 22 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10492270 |
| Summary: | From the Booker Prize-winning author of Last Orders and Wish You Were Here, his first new book of short fiction in nearly thirty years: beautifully crafted, piercingly observant stories that unite into a richly peopled vision of a country that is both a crucible of history and a maze of contemporary confusions.<br> <br> Meet Dr. Shah who has never been to India, and Mrs. Kaminski, on her way to Poland; meet Holly and Polly, who have come to their own Anglo-Irish understanding, and Charlie and Don, who have seen the docks turn into Docklands; Daisy Baker, who is terrified of Yorkshire; and Johnny Dewhurst, stranded on Exmoor. Graham Swift steers us effortlessly from the seventeenth century to the present day, from world-shaking events to the secret dramas lived out in rooms, workplaces, homes. With these open-eyed, eloquent and often comic stories, Swift charts a human geography that moves us profoundly. |
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| Item Description: | "Originally published in Great Britain by Simon & Schuster, London, in 2014"--Title page verso. "This is a Borzoi Book"--Title page verso. |
| Physical Description: | 237 pages ; 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781101874189 110187418X |
