Learning to swim and other stories / Graham Swift.
Material type: TextPublication details: London : Heinemann, 1985, c1982.Description: 189 p. ; 23cmISBN:- 9780434753321 (cased) :
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Books | Portsmouth Branch Library Fiction Hard Cover | Fiction | F Swi (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | PORT19070203 | |||
Books | Portsmouth Branch Library Fiction Hard Cover | Fiction | F Swi (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | PORT19070204 | |||
Books | Portsmouth Mobile Library Fiction Hard Cover | Fiction | F Swi (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | POR119070205 |
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The men and women in these spare, Kafkaesque stories are engaged in struggles that are no less brutal because they are fought by proxy. In Graham Swift's taut prose, these quiet combative relationships--between a mismatched couple; an aging doctor and his hypochondriacal patient; a teenage refugee swept up in the conflict between an oppressively sentimental father and his rebellious son--become a microcosm for all human cruelty and need.
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