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Swift brings together a richly varied selection of essays, portraits, poetry and interviews, full of insights into his passions and motivations, and wise about the friends, family and other writers who have mattered to him over the years. Kazuo Ishiguro advises on how to choose a guitar, Salman Rushdie arrives for Christmas under guard, and Ted Hughes shares the secrets of a Devon river. There are private moments, too, with long-dead writers, as well as musings on history and memory that readers of Swift's novels will recognize and love. A journey through place and time, Making an Elephant is a book of encounters, between a son and his father, between an author and his younger selves, between writer and reader, and between friends. It brims with charm and candour, and tells of alertness to experience and a true engagement with words, in short, with what it means to feel that writing and reading are an essential part of living.
About the author
Graham Swift wurde 1949 in London geboren. Auf Deutsch erschienen u. a. Waterland (1991), Von jenem Tage an (1995) und bei Hanser Letzte Runde (Roman, 1997). Ausgezeichnet mit dem Booker Prize, wurde der Roman von Fred Schepisi mit hochkarätiger Besetzung verfilmt.
