Out of this World

By Graham Swift

Book Overview

This title shows the same intensity of thought and conviction which had made Neville famous amongst progressive thinkers. In this volume we see not only a profound religious feeling, but also a sense of the dignity and responsibility of human life. Our own feeling about the results of his experiments as a whole is that they are not just an addition to our existing knowledge, but require a revolution in our whole way of thinking about the world.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1639235728
• ISBN13: 9781639235728
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: Lushena Books
• Length: 56 Pages
• Weight: 0.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Tragedy, and Reconciliation Spanning Three Generations.

When Harry Beech refers to his fiancee as "She's out of this world." he reveals a happy conclusion to a life wrought with the kind of unspoken trauma not often made public. Although growing up in and inheriting monetary affluence, he has strained relationships with both his father, a physically disabled WWI veteran, and his daughter, child of his deceased wife. Emerging from a labyrinth of personal crisis, in the backdrop of the 20th century, Harry Beech does manage to mend his life and find some degree of lasting happiness. This work is deeply moving in a way that causes one to reexamine the "constants" which ordinarily typify modern life.

A powerful, brutal history of a 20th Century family

Graham Swift is a proven master of the brooding British drama and he continues here with a history of a family spanning several decades, wars and generations. Swift plumbs the depths of parental guilt, photographers' responsibility and terrorism. You emerge from this book battered but feeling a bit more clear about life in general.