Waterland

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'Graham Swift has mapped his WaterlandÜke a new Wessex. The tale he telis is at once a history of England, a Fenland documentary, and a fictional autobiography. The strangeness and strange effects, of'a landscape which, of all landscapes, most approximated to Nothing' are superbly done: Waterland appropriates the Fens as MobyDick did whaling or Wuthering Heights the moors. This is a beautiful, serious and intelligent növel, admirably ambitious and originál.' HERMIONE LEE/THE OBSERVER 'Graham Swift's new növel, Waterland, is a revelation: a long, classically well achieved, resonantly well written and very English növel of place, history and character. Swift spins a tale of empire-building, land reclamation, brewers and sluice minders, bewhiskered Victorian patriarchs, insane and visionary relicts, an amazing panoply of professional burghers and local eccentrics that together constitute a history of England over the last 300 years... I can't remember when I read a book of such... Tovább

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'Graham Swift has mapped his WaterlandÜke a new Wessex. The tale he telis is at once a history of England, a Fenland documentary, and a fictional autobiography. The strangeness and strange effects, of'a landscape which, of all landscapes, most approximated to Nothing' are superbly done: Waterland appropriates the Fens as MobyDick did whaling or Wuthering Heights the moors. This is a beautiful, serious and intelligent növel, admirably ambitious and originál.' HERMIONE LEE/THE OBSERVER 'Graham Swift's new növel, Waterland, is a revelation: a long, classically well achieved, resonantly well written and very English növel of place, history and character. Swift spins a tale of empire-building, land reclamation, brewers and sluice minders, bewhiskered Victorian patriarchs, insane and visionary relicts, an amazing panoply of professional burghers and local eccentrics that together constitute a history of England over the last 300 years... I can't remember when I read a book of such strange, insidious, unsettling power with a more startiing cast of characters going about their business as though it were utterly normál and preparing the way, down the centuries, for a trio of deaths.' BOOKS AND BOOKMEN '...perfectly controlled, superbly written, and, as they used to say, riveting. Waterland is originál, compelling and narration of the highest order.' THE GUARDIAN '.. .positively Faulknerian in its concentration on murder, incest, guilt and insanity. The brooding sense of place as a shaping force in the novePs action is as powerful as Hardy's Wessex or Dickens's London.' TIME OUT Waterland is a quite brilliant növel, so good that whether Graham Swift wins the Booker Prize or not is in a sense a matter of little consequence.' THE DAILY TELEGRAPH '.. .establishes Graham Swift as one of the most important talents to emerge in English fiction.' THE GLASGOW HERALD 'Swift takes on and refracts a varied tradition: the family saga, the business saga, the növel of provinciai life; in many and complex ways TheMill on the Floss lies behind Waterland as a növel of practical family fortunes, social history and adolescent love.. Waterland has the air of a növel classically at ease in its chosen, and uniquely particular, field of reference.' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT Vissza