Waterland
by:
Graham Swift (author)
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...
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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
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780671554576 (0671554573)
Publish date: April 1st 1985
Publisher: Pocket Books
Pages no: 270
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Academic,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Adult Fiction,
Read For School,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Contemporary,
Modern,
English Literature
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, ...
I was struggling with this book and I fell asleep a couple of times while reading it (which is embarrassing, because normally this never happens to me..) Waterland really was not the kind of book I enjoy reading. I don't know what was going on in the author's head (or body) while writing it, but I...
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June 2011: Better the second time. Love it when that happens. December 2009: This book has everything: love, death, war, history, philosophy, beer, water, England, babies, eels, rivers, Revolutions, kidnapping, sex, murder, and even incest . . . everything except a happy ending. [First read Dece...
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