Making an Elephant - Writing from Within

In his first-ever work of nonfiction, Graham Swift--Booker Prize-winning author of Here Kazuo Ishiguro advises on how to choose a guitar; Salman Rushdie arrives for Christmas under guard; Caryl Phillips shares a beer with the author at a nightclub in Toronto. There are private moments with Swift’s father and with his own younger self, as well as musings--on history, memory, and imagination--that illuminate his work. As generous in its scope as it is acute in its observations,

A propos de l'auteur

Graham Swift lives in London and is the author of eight novels: The Sweet-Shop Owner; Shuttlecock, which received the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize; Waterland, which was short-listed for the Booker Prize and won The Guardian Fiction Award, the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize and the Italian Premio Grinzane Cavour; Out of This World; Ever After, which won the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger; Last Orders, which was awarded the Booker Prize; The Light of Day; and, most recently, Tomorrow. He is also the author of Learning to Swim, a collection of short stories. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Graham Swift
• Edition: Vintage USA
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 04.05.2010
• EAN: 9780307455758
• ISBN: 978-0-307-45575-8
• Pages: 416
• Dimensions: 131 mm x 203 mm x 22 mm
• Thème: Vintage International
• Catégories: Littérature > Littérature (récits) > Correspondance, journaux intimes; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Littérature générale et comparée