LAST ORDERS

SWIFT, Graham

ISBN 10: 0330345591 / ISBN 13: 9780330345590

Published by Picador, London, 1996

About this Item

First edition hardback. Signed and inscribed by author on title page. Boards edges are rubbed, spine is creased. Head and tail of spine lightly bumped. Page edges are lightly discoloured, so too the pages throughout. Head edge is lightly foxed. Pages are lightly thumbed and lightly discoloured, else book is in good condition. Dust wrapper is rubbed. It is well creased and thumbed towards some edges, a little discoloured. Previous bookseller's stamp on front fold back. Spine lightly sunned, back cover rubbed. Else it is in good condition. *We always describe the faults of our books meticulously; they usually present better than they sound.

Seller Inventory # FIC1238

Bibliographic Details

• Title: LAST ORDERS
• Publisher: Picador, London
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0330345591
• ISBN 13: 9780330345590
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

Jack Dodds has died, and his three close friends travel together to pay their last respects and take his ashes to Margate Pier and scatter them into the sea, Jack's final wish. As the journey develops via Rochester, Chatham and Canterbury, the characters tell their different life stories.

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.