Waterland
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Very Good. Jacket: Very good, minor wear to edges. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings visible. Binding: Firm and intact. No stickers or price tags visible on cover.
A landmark of contemporary British fiction, Waterland is a richly layered novel set against the flat, watery landscape of the East Anglian Fens. It chronicles the life of Tom Crick, a history teacher on the verge of forced retirement, who abandons his curriculum to tell his students the tangled story of his own family — a tale stretching back centuries, woven through with murder, madness, and the relentless encroachment of water on land. Graham Swift masterfully interweaves personal history with broader historical forces, arguing that the past is never truly past and that storytelling itself is humanity's only defence against the chaos of existence. Written with brooding, lyrical intensity, the narrative circles obsessively around guilt, memory, and the meaning of history, blurring the boundaries between the personal and the political, the mythic and the mundane. Widely regarded as Swift's finest work, it stands as a profound meditation on loss, desire, and the stories we tell ourselves to make sense of a bewildering world.
Author: Graham Swift
Format: Hardback
Published: 1983, Poseidon Press
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Very Good. Jacket: Very good, minor wear to edges. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings visible. Binding: Firm and intact. No stickers or price tags visible on cover.
A landmark of contemporary British fiction, Waterland is a richly layered novel set against the flat, watery landscape of the East Anglian Fens. It chronicles the life of Tom Crick, a history teacher on the verge of forced retirement, who abandons his curriculum to tell his students the tangled story of his own family — a tale stretching back centuries, woven through with murder, madness, and the relentless encroachment of water on land. Graham Swift masterfully interweaves personal history with broader historical forces, arguing that the past is never truly past and that storytelling itself is humanity's only defence against the chaos of existence. Written with brooding, lyrical intensity, the narrative circles obsessively around guilt, memory, and the meaning of history, blurring the boundaries between the personal and the political, the mythic and the mundane. Widely regarded as Swift's finest work, it stands as a profound meditation on loss, desire, and the stories we tell ourselves to make sense of a bewildering world.