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Out of This World
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Last Orders
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Waterland
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From the Booker Prize-winning author of Last Orders comes an incredibly moving and accomplished new novel. A Vintage Canada trade paperback original. 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.
Wish You Were Here
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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.
Wish You Were Here
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On an autumn day in 2006, on the Isle of Wight, Jack Luxton—once a Devon farmer, now the proprietor of a seaside caravan park—receives the news that his brother, Tom, not seen for years, has been killed in combat in Iraq. For Jack and his wife, Ellie, this will have unexpected, far-reaching effects. For Jack in particular it means a crucial journey: to receive his brother’s remains and to confront his most secret, troubling memories.
A hauntingly intimate, deeply compassionate story about things that touch and test our human core, Wish You Were Here also looks, inevitably, to a wider, afflicted world. Moving toward a fiercely suspenseful climax, it brilliantly transforms the stuff of headlines into heart-wrenching personal truth.
Waterland
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Set in the bleak Fen Country of East Anglia, and spanning some 240 years in the lives of its haunted narrator and his ancestors, Waterland is a book that takes in eels and incest, ale-making and madness, the heartless sweep of history and a family romance as tormented as any in Greek tragedy. " Waterland, like the Hardy novels, carries with all else a profound knowledge of a people, a place, and their interweaving.... Swift tells his tale with wonderful contemporary verve and verbal felicity.... A fine and original work."-- Los Angeles Times
Last Orders
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Four men gather in a London pub. They have taken it upon themselves to carry out the last orders of Jack Dodds, master butcher, and deliver his ashes to the sea. As they drive towards the fulfillment of their mission, their errand becomes an extraordinary journey into their collective and individual pasts. Braiding these men's voices, and that of Jack's widow, into a choir of sorrow and resentment, passion and regret, Swift creates a testament to a changing England and to enduring mortality. "Swift has involved us in real, lived lives...Quietly, but with conviction, he seeks to affirm the values of decency, loyalty, love."--New York Review of Books "A beautiful book...a novel that speaks profoundly of human need and tenderness. Even the most cynical will be warmed by it."--San Francisco Chronicle
From the author of Waterland and Ever After, Last Orders is a quiet but dazzling novel about a group of men, friends since the Second World War, whose lives revolve around work, family, the racetrack, and their favorite pub. When one of them dies, the survivors drive his ashes from London to a seaside town where they will be scattered, compelling them to take stock in who they are today, who they were before, and the shifting relationships in between. Both funny and moving, this won the Booker Prize in 1996.
Out of This World
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Out of This World interweaves the history of a blighted family with the tragic and ludicrous history of the twentieth century. Its alternating narrators are a father and daughter--each obsessed with the other and irrevocably estranged--surveying their losses and grievances on opposite sides of the Atlantic. "A moving, ingenious and often very funny tale that takes us deep into his characters' wounded, resilient hearts with breathtaking virtuosity...rich, complicated, joyful, arresting."-- USA Today
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CRICKET: Hussain leads the way for super Swifts - Witney Gazette
Witney Gazette, UK - May 26, 2009
CRICKET: Hussain leads the way for super SwiftsBy Kieren Bushnell » Omar Hussain was the star of the show as he took 5-14 in Witney Swift's six-wicket victory at Clifton Hampden in Division 3, writes Kieren Bushnell. Batting first, Clifton were shot out for 109, Graeme Woodward chipping in with
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Taylor Swift angelic in white at BMI 2009 Pop Awards - South Asian Women's Forum
South Asian Women's Forum, India - May 20, 2009
South Asian Women's ForumTaylor Swift angelic in white at BMI 2009 Pop AwardsVice President of Writer/Publisher Relations Jody Williams, Songwriter Taylor Swift and BMI's Phil Graham attend BMI's 57th Annual Pop Awards held at The Beverly Wilshire Hotel on May 19, 2009 in Beverly Hills, California. Photo Credit: Getty Images
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SI.com - May 12, 2009
The comeuppance was swift. Serena lost her opening match to Patty Schnyder the very next day, while Safina worked through the draw and beat Svetlana Kuznetsova for her first title of 2009. The plot thickened Monday at the Madrid Open when Williams
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'Andretti curse' strikes quickly - Gary Post Tribune
Gary Post Tribune, IN - May 25, 2009
'Andretti curse' strikes quicklyIt was a swift and bitter end for Moraes, who had a splendid month for KV Racing Technology and also was getting some mention as a possible contender himself. "I know the 26 (car) hit me, OK? I was in front. I was holding my line, and he just hit me.
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Filipino teachers adjust to new life - Shreveport Times
Shreveport Times, LA - May 23, 2009
Filipino teachers adjust to new lifeHer principal, Al Graham, sings her praises. Her students listen and watch her every move. And Caddo Parish School district officials are excited to have her in the classroom, most especially since they traveled to another country to recruit her.
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