The Booker Prize-winning author of Last Orders traces a day in the life of divorced private investigator George Webb as he evaluates his past as a police officer, unpromising prospects, and all-consuming relationship with a former client. 75,000 first printing.
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"Swift is at the height of his powers. In this quite dazzling meditation, Swift makes the reader believe anew in the power of love."--Chicago Tribune
"An intense meditation on love and murder. . . . Graham Swift distills emotion and incident into a hypnotic elixir. He is simply one of the most sure-handed, savvy and remarkable writers now at work." -The Washington Post Book World "A virtuosic display of narrative skill. . . . [And] a love story of peculiar poignancy and power." -The Philadelphia Inquirer "Revelatory. . .Swift paints a potent tale of suspense, sex, betrayal and redmption. A poignant meditation on the give and take of love."--Seattle Times "Meticulously crafted, deftly moving back and forth in time to build suspense."--The New York Times "Takes the conventions of the mystery thriller and turns them inside out." -Chicago Sun-Times "A masterful, first-person narrative about love's sudden revelations and its retributions. . . . Swift delivers another remarkable piece of fiction-one that sticks with you and gnaws on the soul." -St. Louis Post-Dispatch "Exquisite . . . Swift is not about to let go until our vision is blurry from lack of oxygen. The fierceness of this chokehold is what makes Swift such an exhilarating writer, such an essential one." -Milwaukee Journal Sentinel "Swift's hypnotic, elliptical style neatly showcases his characters' psychological depths, yielding a noir-ish stunner shot through with a brutal clarity." -Vanity Fair "Intricate . . . Swift is a virtuoso of narrative ventriloquism; he inhabits his characters through their voices. Swift manages this patterning of motives with exquisite economy." -The New York Times Book Review "Affirms the shifting nature of human connections, and uses the mundane details of a single day to explore the broad scopes of love and passion, venality and benevolence." -The Los Angeles Times "Mysterious . . . seductive . . . [filled with] moments of understated metaphorical brilliance." -The Boston Globe "It is Swift's sheer, unstoppable--and at times unfathomable--affection for his characters, his tender feelings towards their everydayness, their ordinariness . . . that makes one follow their stories." --New York Review of BooksGraham Swift was born in 1949 in London. He is the author of six previous novels and a short story collection. His work has been widely translated and has won prizes internationally, including the Booker Prize for Last Orders.
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