England and Other Stories

By Graham Swift

Book Overview

In these beautifully crafted stories, Graham Swift--author of the Booker Prize-winning Last Orders --presents a vision of a country, England, that is both a crucible of history and a maze of contemporary confusions. Moving from the seventeenth century to the present day, from world-shaking events to domestic dramas and frequently mixing tragedy with comedy, England and Other Stories is bound together by an underlying instinct for the story of us all: an evocation of that mysterious thing, a nation, enriched by a clear-eyed compassion for how human individuals find or lose their way in the nationless territory of birth, growing up, sex, ageing and death.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1101872381
• ISBN13: 9781101872383
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Vintage
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 7.9"