Waterland / Graham Swift ; with an introduction by John Burnside
By: Swift, Graham [author]
Contributor(s): Burnside, John
Series: Picador ClassicPublisher: London : Picador, 2015Description: xii, 362 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 978-1-4472-75503 Subject(s): History teachers -- Fiction | Mentally ill women -- Fiction | Autobiographical memory -- Fiction | Married people -- FictionDDC classification: 823.914 Summary: Tom Crick is a passionate teacher, but before he is forced into retirement by scandal, he has one last history lesson to deliver his own. Spanning more than two hundred years in the lives of its haunted narrator and his ancestors, Waterland is a visionary tale of England's mysterious Fen country. Taking in eel's and incest, ale-making and madness, the discovery of a body and a tragic family romance, this is an extraordinary novel about the heartless sweep of history and man's changing place within it. Production| Item type | Current location | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Tom Crick is a passionate teacher, but before he is forced into retirement by scandal, he has one last history lesson to deliver his own. Spanning more than two hundred years in the lives of its haunted narrator and his ancestors, Waterland is a visionary tale of England's mysterious Fen country. Taking in eel's and incest, ale-making and madness, the discovery of a body and a tragic family romance, this is an extraordinary novel about the heartless sweep of history and man's changing place within it.
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