Wish You Were Here
Autor: | Graham Swift |
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EAN: | 9781471162008 |
eBook Format: | ePUB |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Produktart: | eBook |
Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 19.10.2017 |
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FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LAST ORDERS AND MOTHERING SUNDAY, andreissuedfor the first time in Scribner, comes a novel called',Profound and powerful . . . an unputdownable read' by Scotland on Sunday. On an autumn day in 2006, on the Isle of Wight, Jack Luxton former Devon farmer, now proprietor of a seaside caravan park receives the news that his brother Tom, not seen for years, has been killed in Iraq. For Jack and his wife Ellie this will have a potentially catastrophic impact and compel Jack to make a crucial journey: to receive his brother's remains, but also to return to the land of his past and confront his most secret, troubling memories.Praise for Mothering Sunday: Bathed in light, and even when tragedy strikes, it blazes irresistibly Swift's small fiction feels like a masterpiece' Guardian ',Alive with sensuousness and sensuality wonderfully accomplished, it is an achievement' Sunday Times ',From start to finish Swift's is a novel of stylish brilliance and quiet narrative verve. The archly modulated, precise prose (a hybrid of Henry Green and Kazuo Ishiguro) is a glory to read. Now 66, Swift is a writer at the very top of his game' Evening Standard ',Mothering Sunday is a powerful, philosophical and exquisitely observed novel about the lives we lead, and the parallel lives the parallel stories we can never know It may just be Swift's best novel yet' Observer