Wish You Were Here

Swift, Graham

ISBN 10: 0330535838 / ISBN 13: 9780330535830

Published by Picador, London, 2011

About this Item

F/F-. 8vo. original burgundy boards in dustwrapper priced £18.99 (a trifle rubbed, creased); pp. [viii (last blank)], 354 (last blank). A near fine copy.

Seller Inventory # 026508

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Wish You Were Here
• Publisher: Picador, London
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0330535838
• ISBN 13: 9780330535830
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: F-
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature - Modern

About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Graham Swift was born in 1949 and is the author of many acclaimed novels, two collections of short stories (England and Other Stories, and Learning to Swim and Other Stories) and Making an Elephant, a book of essays, portraits, poetry and reflections on his life in writing. With Waterland he won the Guardian Fiction Prize (1983), and with Last Orders the Booker Prize (1996). Both novels have since been made into films. Graham Swift's work has appeared in over thirty languages.