By Graham Swift
London: Simon & Schuster, (2014).
First edition, first printing.
SIGNED by the author to the title-page.
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A collection of 25 original stories by the award-winning author.
"Meet Dr Shah, who has never been to India, and Mrs Kaminski, on her way
to Poland via A & E; meet Holly and Polly who have come to their own
Anglo-Irish understanding and Lily Hobbs, married to a shirt; Charlie
and Don, who have seen the docks turn into Docklands; Mr Wilkinson, the
weirdo next door; Daisy Baker, who is terrified of Yorkshire; and Johnny
Dewhurst, stranded on Exmoor.
Graham Swift steers us
effortlessly from the Civil War to the present day, from world-shaking
events to the secret dramas lived out in rooms, workplaces, homes. With
his remarkable sense of place, he charts an intimate human geography. In
doing so he moves us profoundly, but with a constant eye for comedy.
Binding these stories together is Swift's grasp of the universal in the
local and his affectionate but unflinching instinct for the story of us
all: an evocation of that mysterious body that is a nation, deepened by
the palpable sense of our individual bodies finding or losing their way
in the nationless territory of birth, growing up, sex, ageing, and
death."--Publisher's blurb.
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