by Graham Swift, Enrique Hegewicz
The power of stories, as most of us on any social book websites know, is powerful. It is with the use of or the absence of stories that we communicate information, facts, knowledge, and experience. Waterland is a book about the power of stories – the knowledge that they pass along, ...
bookshelves: norfolk, one-penny-wonder, paper-read, historical-fiction, incest-agameforallthefamily, winter-20122013, tbr-busting-2013, published-1983, teh-brillianz, booker-longlist, suicide, teh-demon-booze Read from August 24, 2012 to February 09, 2013 Dedication: For CandiceQuote: 'Ours was...
Dedication: For CandiceQuote: 'Ours was the marsh country...' Great ExpectationsOpening: 'And don't forget,' my father would say, as if he expected me at any moment to up and leave to seek my fortune in the wide world, 'whatever you learn about people, however bad they turn out, each one of them ha...
I like Graham Swift, but I didn't really get into this book until about halfway through. Maybe because of the historical tone of this book, none of the characters are fully developed to my taste, even the narrator, whose thoughts and feelings we rarely know. That said, I did like the novel, particul...
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