Last Orders - Softcover

Swift, Graham

3.67

14,144 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679312110 ISBN 13: 9780679312116

Publisher: Random House Canada, 2002

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Four men gather in a London pub. They have taken it upon themselves to carry out the last orders of Jack Dodds, master butcher, and deliver his ashes to the sea. As they drive towards the fulfillment of their mission, their errand becomes an extraordinary journey into their collective and individual pasts. Honest, moving, yet richly comic, faithful both to the passing rhythms of daily speech and to the abiding truths of life and death, the novel is a testament to a changing England and to enduring mortality.

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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.

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'Inspired... His finest novel yet' Guardian 'Tragic, comic and wonderfully compassionate' Daily Mail 'A triumph... A novel that unflinchingly contemplates human perishability, and that also pays unsentimental tribute to human resilience' Sunday Times

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