Last Orders - Softcover

Swift, Graham

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679308571 ISBN 13: 9780679308577

Publisher: Vintage Canada, 2005

Synopsis

Last Orders is the story of four men once close to London butcher Jack Dodds, who meet to carry out his last wish: to have his ashes scattered into the sea. The men, whose lives revolve around work, family, the racetrack and their favourite pub, must make their way down to a seaside town to complete the task. Through conversation and memory they trace the paths they have followed by choice and by accident; through the Second World War and its aftermath, through the dramas of family life, and their relationships with each other. In their brilliantly realized, richly nuanced voices, Swift has created a narrative language that perfectly expresses not only the comforts of old habits and friendships, but also the complexity and courage of ordinary lives.

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Product Description:

[ { By Swift, Graham ( Author ) LAST ORDERS Jan-14-1997 Paperback } ]

Review:

From the author of Waterland and Ever After, Last Orders is a quiet but dazzling novel about a group of men, friends since the second world war, whose lives revolve around work, family, the racetrack and their favourite pub. When one of them dies, the survivors drive his ashes from London to a seaside town where they will be scattered, compelling them to take stock of who they are today, who they were before and the shifting relationships in between. Both funny and moving, this won the Booker Prize in 1996.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Canada
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0679308571
• ISBN 13: 9780679308577
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304