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Learning to Swim: And Other Stories (Vintage International) - Softcover

Swift, Graham

 
9780679739784: Learning to Swim: And Other Stories (Vintage International)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0679739785 ISBN 13: 9780679739784
Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1992

Inhaltsangabe

The men and women in these spare, Kafkaesque stories are engaged in struggles that are no less brutal because they are fought by proxy. In Graham Swift's taut prose, these quiet combative relationships--between a mismatched couple; an aging doctor and his hypochondriacal patient; a teenage refugee swept up in the conflict between an oppressively sentimental father and his rebellious son--become a microcosm for all human cruelty and need.

"Swift proves throughout this ambitious collection that he is a master of his language and the construction of provocative situations."--Houston Chronicle

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Graham Swift was born in 1949 and is the author of ten novels, three collections of short stories, and Making an Elephant, a book of essays, portraits, poetry, and reflections on his life in writing. With Waterland, he won the Guardian Fiction Award, and with Last Orders the Booker Prize. Both novels have since been made into films. His work has been translated into more than 30 languages.

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The men and women in these spare, Kafkaesque stories are engaged in struggles that are no less brutal because they are fought by proxy. In Graham Swift's taut prose, these quiet combative relationships--between a mismatched couple; an aging doctor and his hypochondriacal patient; a teenage refugee swept up in the conflict between an oppressively sentimental father and his rebellious son--become a microcosm for all human cruelty and need.
"Swift proves throughout this ambitious collection that he is a master of his language and the construction of provocative situations."--"Houston Chronicle

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Verlag
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Erscheinungsdatum
1992
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0679739785
ISBN 13 
9780679739784
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
192
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