| Waterland Contributor(s): Swift, Graham (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679739793 ISBN-13: 9780679739791 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1992 Annotation: Set in the bleak Fen Country of East Anglia, and spanning some 240 years in the lives of its haunted narrator and his ancestors, Waterland is a book that takes in eels and incest, ale-making and madness, the heartless sweep of history and a family romance as tormented as any in Greek tragedy. "Waterland, like the Hardy novels, carries with all else a profound knowledge of a people, a place, and their interweaving.... Swift tells his tale with wonderful contemporary verve and verbal felicity.... A fine and original work."--"Los Angeles Times |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Sagas |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 91050600 |
| Series: Vintage International |
| Physical Information: 0.78" H x 5.26" W x 8.02" (0.60 lbs) 368 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Set in the bleak Fen Country of East Anglia, and spanning some 240 years in the lives of its haunted narrator and his ancestors, Waterland is a book that takes in eels and incest, ale-making and madness, the heartless sweep of history and a family romance as tormented as any in Greek tragedy. "Waterland, like the Hardy novels, carries with all else a profound knowledge of a people, a place, and their interweaving.... Swift tells his tale with wonderful contemporary verve and verbal felicity.... A fine and original work."--Los Angeles Times |