The Light of Day
Swift, Graham - SIGNED FIRST PRINTING
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Quantity: 1From THE BOOKSNIFFER, Lewes, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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Quantity: 1About this Item
World first printing of the hardback first edition. Flawless, signed on the title page, protected jacket, no damage or marks other than the signature. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng. Seller Inventory # ABE-2511361744
Bibliographic Details
Title: The Light of Day
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
Publication Date: 2003
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: As New
Dust Jacket Condition: As New
Signed: Signed by Author
Edition: 1st Edition.
About this title
'Book for book, Swift is surely one of England's finest novelists' John Banville
Sarah is in prison. Every fortnight she is visited by George, the private eye she employed to observe the final stage of her husband's affair. The visits - and the days between - lead George back into Sarah's past and into events he can picture only too well, while bringing him ever closer to a time he can't quite imagine - when she will once again step out into the clear light of day...
Swift is an extraordinarily parsimonious novelist: plot and language are spare to the point of dullness; and he sets Light of Day almost entirely in a tightly bound and vividly rendered corner of South-West London encompassing Wimbledon and its environs. Yet the careful repetitions and hesitations, as George gropes his way towards the meaning of the fateful act, mirrored in his slow progress from Wimbledon Broadway across the Common to Putney Vale and its crematorium, give this apparently slight story considerable cumulative power. And at the centre of all the unfolding intricacies, as George turns his thoughts from the past to the future, is the bright, clear hope of freedom and love embodied in the novel's title. --Robin Davidson
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