Last Orders
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0394224981
ISBN 13
9780394224985
Category
823 English Fiction
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Publication Year
1996
Publisher
Pages
294 pages
Subject
Older men -- Fiction. Working class -- Fiction. Friendship -- Fiction.
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Abstract
As a novelist, Graham Swift delights in the possibilities of the human voice, imagining his way into the minds and hearts of an extraordinary range of characters.
Description
Publisher Comments
Last Orders is the story of four men once close to London butcher Jack Dodds, who meet to carry out his last wish: to have his ashes scattered into the sea. The men, whose lives revolve around work, family, the racetrack and their favourite pub, must make their way down to a seaside town to complete the task. Through conversation and memory they trace the paths they have followed by choice and by accident; through the Second World War and its aftermath, through the dramas of family life, and their relationships with each other. In their brilliantly realized, richly nuanced voices, Swift has created a narrative language that perfectly expresses not only the comforts of old habits and friendships, but also the complexity and courage of ordinary lives.
Last Orders is the story of four men once close to London butcher Jack Dodds, who meet to carry out his last wish: to have his ashes scattered into the sea. The men, whose lives revolve around work, family, the racetrack and their favourite pub, must make their way down to a seaside town to complete the task. Through conversation and memory they trace the paths they have followed by choice and by accident; through the Second World War and its aftermath, through the dramas of family life, and their relationships with each other. In their brilliantly realized, richly nuanced voices, Swift has created a narrative language that perfectly expresses not only the comforts of old habits and friendships, but also the complexity and courage of ordinary lives.
Biblio Notes
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Graham Swift
ISBN: 0394224981 9780394224985
OCLC Number: 1131480339
Description: 294 pages ; 20 cm
Responsibility: Graham Swift.
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Graham Swift
ISBN: 0394224981 9780394224985
OCLC Number: 1131480339
Description: 294 pages ; 20 cm
Responsibility: Graham Swift.
Number of Copies
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