Waterland

A much-loved classic of twentieth-century British literature

About the author

Graham Swift was born in 1949 and is the author of many acclaimed novels, two collections of short stories (England and Other Stories, and Learning to Swim and Other 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 Prize (1983), and with Last Orders the Booker Prize (1996). Both novels have since been made into films. Graham Swift's work has appeared in over thirty languages.

Report

Graham Swift has mapped his Waterland like a new Wessex. He appropriates the Fens as Moby Dick did whaling or Wuthering Heights the moors. This is a beautiful, serious and intelligent novel, admirably ambitious and original Observer

Product details

• Authors: Graham Swift
• Assisted by: John Burnside (RCW) (Introduction), John Burnside (Introduction)
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 29.12.2014
• EAN: 9781447275503
• ISBN: 978-1-4472-7550-3
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 24 mm
• Series: Picador Classic; Picador Classics; Picador Classic
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature