Learning to Swim and Other Stories
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From the author of the 1996 Booker Prize Winner, Last Orders, comes a stunning collection of short stories.
The men and women in these spare, Kafkaesque stories are engaged in struggles that are no less brutal because they are fought by proxy. In Graham Swift's taut prose, these quiet combative relationships - between a mismatched couple; an aging doctor and his hypochondriacal patient; a teenage refugee swept up in the conflict between an oppressively sentimental father and his rebellious son - become a microcosm for all human cruelty and need.
Author: Graham Swift
Format: Paperback, 224 pages, 127mm x 203mm, 249 g
Published: 2010, Pan Macmillan, United Kingdom
Genre: General & Literary Fiction
Interest Age: From 18 years
Description
From the author of the 1996 Booker Prize Winner, Last Orders, comes a stunning collection of short stories.
The men and women in these spare, Kafkaesque stories are engaged in struggles that are no less brutal because they are fought by proxy. In Graham Swift's taut prose, these quiet combative relationships - between a mismatched couple; an aging doctor and his hypochondriacal patient; a teenage refugee swept up in the conflict between an oppressively sentimental father and his rebellious son - become a microcosm for all human cruelty and need.
Learning to Swim and Other Stories