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This novel is about early trauma, sibling rivalry, and coming to terms with past mistakes. For Swift's protagonist, a secondary-school history teacher named Tom Crick, the past of an individual and the past of mankind are intricately intertwined.
Size
Height:
8.0 in.
Width:
5.0 in.
Thickness:
0.8 in.
Weight:
11.2 oz.
Publisher's Note
Set in the bleak Fen Country of East Anglia, and spanning some 240 years in the lives of its haunted narrator and his ancestors, Waterland is a book that takes in eels and incest, ale-making and madness, the heartless sweep of history and a family romance as tormented as any in Greek tragedy."Waterland, like the Hardy novels, carries with all else a profound knowledge of a people, a place, and their interweaving.... Swift tells his tale with wonderful contemporary verve and verbal felicity.... A fine and original work."--Los Angeles Times
Industry reviews
"A gothic family saga, a detective story and a philosophical meditation on the nature and uses of history." Wolcott
"Mr Swift is one of the best known novelists in a generation now in its mid-40s. His finest book is 'Waterland', a sweeping evocation of the history and atmosphere of Fenlands England." Nicholas
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