England and other stories
By: Graham Swift
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781471137419
Subjects: English fiction; Fiction
Work titles: Short stories
Description: A collection of new stories from the Booker-prize winning author of Last Orders and Waterland; 'a powerful statement about English ways of life and death' Independent on Sunday. Meet Dr Shah, who has never been to India, and Mrs Kaminski, on her way to Poland via A&E. Meet Holly and Polly, who have come to their own Anglo-Irish understanding; Charlie and Don, who have seen the docks turn into Docklands; Daisy Baker, terrified of Yorkshire; and Johnny Dewhurst, stranded on Exmoor. Binding these stories together is Graham Swift's affectionate but unflinching instinct for the story of us all: an evocation of that mysterious body that is a nation, deepened by the palpable sense of our individual bodies finding or losing their way in the nationless territory of birth, ageing, sex and death.
Notes: Originally published: Great Britain : Simon & Schuster, 2014.
Table of contents: title: Going up in the world; title: Wonders will never cease; title: People are life; title: Haematology; title: Remember this; title: The best days; title: Half a loaf; title: Saving grace; title: Tragedy, tragedy; title: As much love as possible; title: Yorkshire; title: Holly and Polly; title: Keys; title: Lawrence of Arabia; title: Ajax; title: Was she the only one?; title: Knife; title: Mrs Kaminski; title: Dog; title: Fusilli; title: I live alone; title: Articles of war; title: Saint peter; title: First on the scene; title: England.