Книга: Swift Graham «Last Orders»

Last Orders

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Last Orders is a much-loved classic of English literature. It won both the 1996 Booker Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. In 2001, it was adapted into an award-winning film starring Michael Caine and Bob Hoskins. Four men once close to Jack Dodds, a London butcher, meet to carry out his peculiar last wish: to have his ashes scattered into the sea. For reasons best known to herself, Jack's widow, Amy, declines to join them. On the surface the tale of a simple if increasingly bizarre day's outing, Last Orders is Graham Swift's most poignant exploration of the complexity and courage of ordinary lives. In 2012 Picador celebrated its 40th anniversary. During that time we have published many prize-winning and bestselling authors including Bret Easton Ellis and Cormac McCarthy, Alice Sebold and Helen Fielding, Graham Swift and Alan Hollinghurst. Years later, Picador continue to bring readers the very best contemporary fiction, non-fiction and poetry from across the globe.

Издательство: "Macmillan Publishers" (2012)

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Swift, Graham

▪ British author
in full  Graham Colin Swift 
born May 4, 1949, London, Eng.

      English novelist and short-story writer whose subtly sophisticated psychological fiction explores the effects of history, especially family history, on contemporary domestic life.

      Swift grew up in South London and was educated at Dulwich College, York University, and Queens' College, Cambridge (B.A., 1970; M.A., 1975). His first novel, The Sweet-Shop Owner (1980), juxtaposes the final day of a shopkeeper's life with memories of his life as a whole. Shuttlecock (1981) concerns a police archivist whose work uncovers conflicting information about his father's mental illness and involvement in World War II.

      After the publication of Learning to Swim, and Other Stories (1982), Swift released what was then his most highly regarded novel, Waterland (1983; filmed 1992). The story centres on a history teacher who is obsessed with local history and his family's past. Swift's other novels include Out of This World (1988), a metaphysical family saga, and Ever After (1992), the story of a man preoccupied with the life of a 19th-century scholar. His subtle, beautifully written Last Orders (1996) won the prestigious Booker Prize. In 2003 he published The Light of Day, which explores a private investigator's relationship with a client convicted of murdering her husband. Swift's novel Tomorrow (2007) returns to themes of the family as a woman lies awake, thinking to the following day when she must reveal a long-suppressed, life-altering truth to her twin children.

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Источник: Swift, Graham

См. также в других словарях:

  • last orders — UK US noun [plural] british a request for people in a bar or pub to order their last drinks before the place closes Thesaurus: in bars, pubs and clubshyponym * * * noun [plural] Brit : ↑last call * * * ˌlast ˈorders [ …   Useful english dictionary

  • last orders — n [plural] BrE the time when customers in a bar or ↑pub can order one more drink before the bar closes American Equivalent: last call …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • last orders — noun plural BRITISH a LAST CALL in a bar …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • Last Orders — Infobox Book | name = Last Orders title orig = translator = image caption = author = Graham Swift illustrator = cover artist = country = United Kingdom language = English series = genre = Novel publisher = Picador release date = 26 January 1996… …   Wikipedia

  • last orders — noun A short period of time, which is usually announced by ringing a bell and is about 5 minutes long, just before a public house is no longer allowed to serve alcoholic beverages due to licensing laws. A pint of lager, plase. Sorry, mate, you… …   Wiktionary

  • last orders (N. Amer. also last call) — (in a bar or pub) said to inform customers that closing time is approaching and that any further drinks should be purchased immediately. → last …   English new terms dictionary

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