Wish You Were Here
by Graham Swift
- Used
- Good
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0330535870
- ISBN 13
- 9780330535878
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In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.
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 test our human core and a resonant novel about a changing England. Rich with a sense of the intimate and the local, it is also, inescapably, about a wider afflicted world. Moving towards an almost unbearably tense climax, it allows us to feel the stuff of headlines - the return of a dead soldier from a foreign war - as heart-wrenching personal truth.
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 test our human core and a resonant novel about a changing England. Rich with a sense of the intimate and the local, it is also, inescapably, about a wider afflicted world. Moving towards an almost unbearably tense climax, it allows us to feel the stuff of headlines - the return of a dead soldier from a foreign war - as heart-wrenching personal truth.
Synopsis
GRAHAM SWIFT is the author of eight acclaimed novels and a collection of short stories; his most recent work is Making an Elephant , a book of essays, portraits, poetry and reflections on his life in writing. With Waterland he won the Guardian Fiction Prize, and with Last Orders the Booker Prize. Both novels have since been made into films. Graham Swift's work has appeared in over thirty languages.
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- DASHbooks (AU)
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- Title
- Wish You Were Here
- Author
- Graham Swift
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0330535870
- ISBN 13
- 9780330535878
- Publisher
- Picador
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2011
- Keywords
- graham swift, wish you were here, novel, family saga, jack luxton, devon, iraq, journey, human, england, dead, soldier, foreign, war, truth,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Novel; Family Saga;
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