Last Orders

Swift, Graham

ISBN 10: 0330347454 / ISBN 13: 9780330347457

Published by NY: KNOPF. 1996, 1996

About this Item

RARE "Signed" Presentation Edition of the 1st American Uncorrected Page Proofs. 1996 Booker Prize Winner. New copy. Never read. Book comes in a Slip Case. Slip case is shrink wrapped. Shrink wrap has never been opened. Book and Slip Case are PERFECT. COLLECTOR'S cOPY.

Seller Inventory # 000995

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Last Orders
• Publisher: NY: KNOPF. 1996
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0330347454
• ISBN 13: 9780330347457
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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.