Waterland
Introduction by Tim Binding
By Graham Swift
By Graham Swift
By Graham Swift
Introduction by Tim Binding
By Graham Swift
Introduction by Tim Binding
By Graham Swift
By Graham Swift
Part of Vintage International
Part of Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series
Part of Vintage International
Category: Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction
Category: Literary Fiction | Fiction Classics | Historical Fiction
Category: Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction
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Praise
“Waterland appropriates the Fens as Moby-Dick did whaling or Wuthering Heights the moors—a beautiful, serious, and intelligent novel, admirably ambitious and original.” —The Observer
“A formidably intelligent book—animated by an impressive, angry pity at what human creatures are capable of doing to one another in the name of love and need.” —The New York Review of Books
“Swift spins a tale of empire-building, land reclamation, brewers and sluice-minders, bewhiskered Victorian patriarchs, insane and visionary relicts . . . A book of strange, insidious, unsettling power.” —Books and Bookmen
“Teems with energy, fertility, violence, madness . . . Demonstrates the irrepressible, wide-ranging talent of this young British writer.” —The Washington Post Book World
“Extraordinary . . . A personal book, a book that speaks to the innermost core of the reader . . . Waterland is history, it is exploration. Waterland is geography, lineage. It is commerce, decline and fall, the industrial revolution (the French one, too, with heads lopped off) and, like everything around us, it bears the scars of the two great wars of the twentieth century. It is family saga, family secrets, love, licit and otherwise; it is, above all, an exploration into what it is, this history thing, that affects us all, your history, mine, ours.”
—from the Introduction by Tim Binding
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