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Learning to Swim: And Other Stories
Contributor(s): Swift, Graham (Author)
ISBN: 0679739785     ISBN-13: 9780679739784
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
OUR PRICE:   $14.25  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: March 1992
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Annotation: 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.
"Swift proves throughout this ambitious collection that he is a master of his language and the construction of provocative situations."--"Houston Chronicle
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 91050601
Series: Vintage International
Physical Information: 0.54" H x 5.21" W x 7.98" (0.49 lbs) 192 pages
 
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Publisher Description:
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.

"Swift proves throughout this ambitious collection that he is a master of his language and the construction of provocative situations."--Houston Chronicle