Waterland graham swift review7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() It is also a book about beer, eels, the French Revolution, the end of the world, windmills, will-o’-the-wisps, murder, love, education, curiosity and-supremely-the malign and merciful element of water. ![]() Compulsively readable, it is a novel of resonant depth and encyclopaedic richness, mixing human and natural history and exploring the tragic forces that take us both forwards and back. Perfectly controlled, superbly written - Waterland is original, compelling and narration of the highest order. Read more tale of two families, startling in its twists and turns and universal in its reach. Waterland, Graham Swift’s sweeping 1983 novel, has a strong sense of regionalism as reflected in its title. It’s also an examination of the tragedies that befall families. Waterland is a classic of modern fiction: a vision of England seen through its mysterious, amphibious Fen country a sinuous meditation on the workings of time a. A cool, slimy but strangely poignant and nostalgic smell. Nearly forty years later, his son Tom, a history teacher, is driven by a bizarre marital crisis and the provocation of one of his students to forsake the formal teaching of history-and tell stories. The Booker Shortlisted Modern Classic from the author of Last Orders, Mothering Sunday and Here We Are One summer morning in 1943, lock-keeper Henry Crick finds the drowned body of a sixteen-year-old boy. ![]()
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