num_pages: 304
description: Soon to be a major motion picture starring Michael Caine and Bob Hoskins.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. Honest, moving, yet richly comic, faithful both to the passing rhythms of daily speech and to the abiding truths of life and death, the novel is a testament to a changing England and to enduring mortality.
language: English
title: Last Orders
titlecomplete: Last Orders
genres: 20th Century, Literature, Literary Fiction, Novels, Modern, Death, College, Fiction, Contemporary, British Literature
ratings_count: 13914
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: James Tait Black Memorial Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Whitbread Award
category: Novel, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Dublin Literary Award
category: Shortlist
publisher: Random House Canada