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Literature & Fiction

England and Other Stories

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England and Other Stories

From the Booker Prizeâ€“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.

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.

From the Hardcover edition.
Country USA
Author Graham Swift
Binding Kindle Edition
EISBN 9781101874202
Format Kindle eBook
Label Knopf
Manufacturer Knopf
NumberOfPages 258
PublicationDate 2015-05-19
Publisher Knopf
ReleaseDate 2015-05-19
Studio Knopf

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