Tomorrow - Hardcover

Swift, Graham

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0307266907 ISBN 13: 9780307266903

Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2007

Synopsis

In his first novel since The Light of Day, the Booker Prize–winning author gives us a luminous tale about the closest of human bonds.

On a midsummer’s night Paula Hook lies awake; Mike, her husband of twenty-five years, asleep beside her; her teenage twins, Nick and Kate, sleeping in nearby rooms. The next day, she knows, will redefine all of their lives. A revelation lies in store. Her children’s future lies before them. The house holds the family’s history and fate.

Recalling the years before and after her children were born, Paula begins a story that is both a glowing celebration of love possessed and a moving acknowledgment of the fear of loss, of the fragilities, illusions, and secrets on which even our most intimate sense of who we are can rest. As day draws nearer, Paula’s intensely personal thoughts touch on all our tomorrows.

Brilliantly distilling half a century into one suspenseful night, as tender in its tone as it is deep in its soundings, Tomorrow is an eloquent exploration of couples, parenthood, and selfhood, and a unique meditation on the mystery of happiness.

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Review

Praise for "The Light of Day":
"The story draws the reader on like the best whodunit-or, whydunnit. Yet it is also a profoundly artful, beautifully weighted, resonant and humane literary novel."
--"Telegraph" (UK)
"Leave it to one of the great modern storytellers to pen a mystery where the crime is the least important element . . . Swift fashions the detective archetype into a workshop for a discussion of human identity."
--"Winnipeg Free Press"
"[Swift] is a wonderfully original writer and his new work lives up to his reputation as one of England's finest living novelists . . . an intriguing, even mystifying story of the power of passion, murder and redemption."
--"Toronto Sun"
Praise for "Last Orders":
"Graham Swift is a purely wonderful writer, and Last Orders, full of gravity and affection and stylistic brilliance, proves it precisely."
--Richard Ford
"Book for book, Swift is surely one of England's finest living novelists."
--"New York Review of Books"

"From the Hardcover edition."

"A writer of great range, vigor and acuity. . . . Evokes perfectly the circularities of a sleepless night."
--"The New York Times Book Review"
"An honest, sometimes funny, sometimes snort-aloud-true, tale of a woman's love for her family."
--"The Hartford Courant "
"The circular way Paula unwinds her story-less chronologically than thematically-told with the warmth of a woman talking to her adored children, is captivating."
--"Portland Oregonian"
"Swift's]talent shines through in his smooth prose and keen eye for detail.... "Tomorrow "provides a revealing look at one family's secrets and how they impact many lives, despite one's best efforts to manipulate the outcome."
--"Rocky Mountain News"

Book Description

Booker Prize-winner Graham Swift returns to Picador with a masterful and compassionate novel, one of his finest works to date

About this edition

• Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0307266907
• ISBN 13: 9780307266903
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 255