Out of This World

by Graham Swift

Overview

Out of This World interweaves the history of a blighted family with the tragic and ludicrous history of the twentieth century. Its alternating narrators are a father and daughter--each obsessed with the other and irrevocably estranged--surveying their losses and grievances on opposite sides of the Atlantic.

"A moving, ingenious and often very funny tale that takes us deep into his characters' wounded, resilient hearts with breathtaking virtuosity...rich, complicated, joyful, arresting."--USA Today

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780307829825
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	09/19/2012
Series:	Vintage International
Sold by:	Random House
Format:	eBook
Pages:	212
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Graham Swift was born in 1949 and is the author of ten novels, three collections of short 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 Award, and with Last Orders the Booker Prize. Both novels have since been made into films. His work has been translated into more than 30 languages.

Editorial Reviews

``Any doubt that Swift, whose Waterland was nominated for England's Booker Prize, is one of the very best young British novelists should be dispelled by this beautifully written, stinging study of a family torn apart by guilt and anger,'' lauded PW. ``This is a powerful meditation on global and familial violence, written in prose of unerring grace and emotional precision.'' (Oct.)

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