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Swift, Graham
by Waterland
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0671498630
- ISBN 13
- 9780671498634
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About This Item
New York. 1983. Poseidon Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. Remainder Mark. 0671498630. 310 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Fred Marcellino. keywords: Literature Beer England. FROM THE PUBLISHER - WATERLAND is a novel of resonant depth and encyclopedic richness. It is also a book about beer, eels, the French Revolution, the end of the world, windmills, will-o'-the-wisps, murder, love, incest, education, curiosity, storytelling and - supremely - the malign and merciful element of water. One bright summer morning in 1943 Henry Crick, a lock-keeper, finds young Freddie Parr's body floating in his lock. Although the death is termed an accident, Henry Crick's son Tom knows otherwise, and bears the secret for life, Forty years later, Tom, now a history teacher besieged by a bizarre marital crisis and the phasing out' of history from his school's curriculum, abandons his formal lessons to tell his students stories of his native Fenland, an ambiguous, amphibious domain where past and present intermingle, where the drama of loss and reclamation is written in the landscape. Tom Crick traces for his listening class the tragedies and changing fortunes of his forebears: how his eighteenth-century ancestor Thomas Atkinson dredged a river, built an empire, then broke his young wife Sarah's head in a jealous rage and died of grief; how Sarah survived for fifty years, deprived of her senses, to become a local deity; how his grandfather Ernest fell in love with his own daughter and fathered a child he believed would become Saviour of the World, And he tells them of the fateful repercussions of that summer morning in 1943, which still trap the aging Crick in the consequences of events long ago. WATERLAND is a moving meditation on history, on procreation, on destruction, and on our struggles to shore up our small worlds against the onrushing forces of time and nature. inventory #29947 ISBN: 0671498630.
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- Bookseller
- Zeno's (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 29947
- Title
- Swift, Graham
- Author
- Waterland
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0671498630
- ISBN 13
- 9780671498634
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 1983
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