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Graham Swift - Wish You Were Here - 9781447203247 - KRF0023931
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Wish You Were Here

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Description for Wish You Were Here Paperback. Used paperback in good condition. Some shelf wear.

On an autumn day in 2006, on the Isle of Wight, Jack Luxton, former Devon farmer and now the proprietor of a seaside caravan park, receives the news that his soldier brother Tom, not seen for years, has been killed in Iraq.

For Jack and his wife Ellie this will have a potentially catastrophic impact. For Jack in particular it means a crucial journey—to receive his brother’s remains, but also into his own most secret, troubling memories and into the land of his and Ellie’s past.

Wish You Were Here is both a gripping account of things that touch and ... Read more

`This is a profound and powerful portrait of a nation and a man in crisis, that for all its gentle intensity also manages to be an unputdownable read.’ Scotland on Sunday

`The novel expertly explores the poignant contrast between irrepressible human hope and the constraints within which we live our finite lives.’ The Times

`Affecting, powerfully sober prose . . . Wish You Were Here is a work of wide, ambitious span’ Sunday Times

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Product Details

Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781447203247
SKU
KRF0023931
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1

About Graham Swift
Graham Swift was born in 1949 and is the author of many acclaimed novels, two collections of short stories (England and Other Stories, and Learning to Swim and Other Stories) and Making an Elephant, a book of essays, portraits, poetry and reflections on his life in writing. With Waterland he won the Guardian Fiction Prize (1983), and with Last Orders ... Read more

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