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Author
Publication
1997 - Vintage International, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
73,500 words, Guess
Page Count
294 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivelastorders00swif_0
- Internet Archivelastorders00swif_633
- Internet Archivelastorders0000swif_c6p9
- ISBN-100679766626
- ISBN-139780679766629
and 7 more
- LibraryThing17994
- Goodreads711878
- Library of Congress Control Number96046858
- Better World BooksO6-DQZ-184
- Better World Books9780679766629
- Better World BooksO6-BXH-942
- Open LibraryOL1006997M
Classifications
- DDC823/.914
- LCCPR6069.W47 L3 1996
- LCCPR6069.W47 L3 1996a
and 2 more
- LCCPR6069.W47L3 1996
- LCCPR6069.W47
Description
Graham Swift's first novel since the highly acclaimed Ever After is a subtle yet deeply felt exploration of the ways in which friendship and love are shaped by the past and by fate. At its center is a group of men, friends since the Second World War, whose lives revolve around work, family, the racetrack, and their favorite pub. Now, the death of one of them, and the survivors' task of driving their friend's ashes from London to the seaside town where they'll be scattered, compels them to take stock. Through conversation and memory they trace the paths they have followed by choice and by accident: through war and its aftermath, through the dramas of their family lives and of their shifting relationships with one another. In brilliantly realized, richly humorous voices, Swift has created a narrative language that perfectly expresses not only the comforts of old habits and friendships but the profound emotional revelations this brief but far-reaching journey will bring them.
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