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Last Orders
by Graham Swift

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Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

The author of the internationally acclaimed Waterland gives us a beautifully crafted and astonishingly moving novel that is at once a vision of a changing England and a testament to the powers of friendship, memory, and fate.

Four men — friends, most of them, for half a lifetime — gather in a London pub. They have taken it upon themselves to carry out the "last orders" of Jack Dodds, master butcher, and carry his ashes to the sea. And as they drive to the coast in the Mercedes that Jack's adopted son Vince has borrowed from his car dealership, their errand becomes an epic journey into their collective and individual pasts.

Braiding these men's voices — and that of Jack's mysteriously absent widow — into a choir of secret sorrow and resentment, passion and regret, Graham Swift creates a work that is at once intricate and honest, tender and profanely funny; in short, Last Orders is a triumph.

Review:

"Last Orders works its magic calmly and delicately." Montreal Gazette

Review:

"Deeply moving....Swift has made us love these characters. The impression we carry away is not the futility of life, but the amazing courage of human beings." The Toronto Star

Synopsis:

Swift's first novel since his highly acclaimed Ever After is a subtle yet piercing story about 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. When one of the group dies, the survivors are compelled to take stock.
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About the Author

Graham Swift is the author of five other novels, including the acclaimed Waterland, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Guardian Fiction Award. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages. He lives in London.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780679766629
Author:
Swift, Graham
Publisher:
Vintage Books USA
Location:
New York :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Friendship
Subject:
Death
Subject:
England
Subject:
Psychological fiction
Subject:
Aged men
Subject:
Working class
Subject:
Death -- England -- Fiction.
Subject:
Older men
Copyright:
1996
Edition Description:
Vintage Intl
Series Volume:
BP-413E
Publication Date:
January 1997
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
304
Dimensions:
8.01x5.19x.67 in. .50 lbs.
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