Last Orders

Graham Swift

ISBN 10: 0330345591 / ISBN 13: 9780330345590

Published by Picador, London, 1996

About this Item

Picador 1996 Uncorrected Proof Copy signed by author to title page. A lovely Fine tight, clean unread copy with tiny crease to top of spine in a clear removable acetate protective sleeve.

Seller Inventory # 000534

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Last Orders
• Publisher: Picador, London
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0330345591
• ISBN 13: 9780330345590
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Fine
• 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.