num_pages: 275
description: Dazzling in its structure and shattering in its emotional force, Graham Swift's Ever After spans two centuries and settings from the adulterous bedrooms of postwar Paris to the contemporary entanglements in the groves of academe. It is the story of Bill Unwin, a man haunted by the death of his beautiful wife and a survivor himself of a recent brush with mortality. And although it touches on Darwin and dinosaurs, bees and bridge builders, the true subject of Ever After is nothing less than the eternal question, "Why should things matter?""Ever After is explicitly concerned with historical investigation, love, death, family affairs.... It moves quickly, and it vibrates with feeling and thought."--Wall Street Journal
language: English
title: Ever After
titlecomplete: Ever After
genres: Fiction, British Literature, Literature, Read For School, Novels, Contemporary, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Love, World War II
ratings_count: 734
awards: awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger
category: Roman
publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group