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Shuttlecock
Автор: Graham Swift Жанр: Picador Издательство: Picador Год: 1999 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 06 мая 20092001-07-28
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Prentis, senior clerk in the ‘dead crimes’ department of police archives, is becoming more and more confused. Alienated from his wife and children, and obsessed by his father, a wartime hero now the mute inmate of a mental hospital, Prentis feels increasingly unsettled as his enigmatic boss, Mr Quinn, turns his investigation towards him — and his father. Gradually Prentis suspects that his father’s breakdown and Quinn’s menacing behaviour are connected and the link is to be found in his father’s memoirs, ‘Shuttlecock’...
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The Sweet Shop Owner
Автор: Graham Swift Жанр: Picador Издательство: Picador Год: 1999 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20092000-12-07
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The first novel from the Booker Prize winning author of Last Orders and Waterland. In the sweet shop Willy Chapman was free, absolved from all responsibility, and he ran his sweet shop like his life – quietly, steadfastly, devotedly. It was a bargain struck between Chapman and his beautiful, emotionally injured wife – a bargain based on unexpressed, inexpressible love and on a courageous acceptance of life’s deprivations... threatened only by Dorry, their clever, angry, unforgiving daughter.
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Tomorrow
Автор: Graham Swift Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2007 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 27 августа 20092010-02-24
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In his first novel since The Light of Day, the Booker Prize-winning author gives us a luminous tale about the closest of human bonds. On a midsummer's night Paula Hook lies awake; Mike, her husband of twenty-five years, asleep beside her; her teenage twins, Nick and Kate, sleeping in nearby rooms. The next day, she knows, will redefine all of their lives. A revelation lies in store. Her children's future lies before them. The house holds the family's history and fate. Recalling the years before and after her children were born, Paula begins a story that is both a glowing celebration of love possessed and a moving acknowledgment of the fear of loss, of the fragilities, illusions, and secrets on which even our most intimate sense of who we are can rest. As day draws nearer, Paula's intensely personal thoughts touch on all our tomorrows. Brilliantly distilling half a century into one suspenseful night, as tender in its tone as it is deep in its soundings, Tomorrow is an eloquent exploration of couples, parenthood, and selfhood, and a unique meditation on the mystery of happiness.
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Last Orders
Автор: Graham Swift Жанр: Picador Издательство: Picador Год: 2010 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20122013-09-14
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Four men once close to Jack Dodds, a London butcher, meet to carry out his peculiar last wish: to have his ashes scattered into the sea. For reasons best known to herself, Jack's widow, Amy, declines to join them.
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The Light of Day
Автор: Graham Swift Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2008 Страниц: 336 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20102011-09-27
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Beautifully written, enthralling and unforgettable, The Light of Day is a bold, unconventional tale of love, murder and second chances. Over the course of a single day, we meet George and Sarah who are bound together and cruelly separated by a momentous act that has cut deeply into both their lives. Teasing out the magical in the ordinary, truth from deceit, The Light of Day is a timeless love story about how we can find the beautiful and enchanting in the most unlikely places.
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Ever After
Автор: Graham Swift Жанр: Picador Издательство: Picador Год: 2010 Страниц: 275 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20122012-07-14
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An academic sits alone in his college room thinking about the people he has lost. Powerful memories crowd in on him — childhood days in Paris; his exuberant, glamorous mother; his mysterious father; and the brash young American who becomes his step-father. Mingled with this emerges a tender portrait of his relationship with his actress wife. Ever After is a poignant elegy to lost faith and lost hope. It is also a powerful affirmation of love. 'Once in a precious while you read a novel which, every few chapters, makes you shiver with self-recognition. Ever After is such a novel' — Daily Mail. 'Swift is set apart by his acute observation and thrilling exactness of description... Exceptional' — The Times.
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Shuttlecock
Автор: Graham Swift Жанр: Picador Издательство: Picador Год: 2010 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 11 октрября 20132013-02-29
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Prentis, senior clerk in the 'dead crimes' department of police archives, is becoming more and more confused. Alienated from his wife and children, and obsessed by his father, a wartime hero now the mute inmate of a mental hospital, Prentis feels increasingly unsettled as his enigmatic boss, Mr Quinn, turns his investigation towards him — and his father. Gradually Prentis suspects that his father's breakdown and Quinn's menacing behavior are connected and the link is to be found in his father's memoirs, Shuttlecock. 'Excellent, profound' — Alan Hollinghurst, London Review of Books. 'An astonishing study of forms of guilt, laced with a thread of detection, and puckering now and then into outrageous humor' — Sunday Times. 'A superbly written claustrophobic account of power that corrupts private and public life and of guilt that becomes obsession' — Daily Telegraph. 'Swift's central strength as a writer is his integrity. Story and character are treated with a seriousness and respect that while allowing for the oddity of human behavior — Shuttlecock is thoroughly and beautifully odd — always honors them' — Times Literary Supplement. 'Serious, moving and often very funny indeed' — Observer.
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