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From the claustrophobias of hotel rooms to the fragile protectiveness of a doctor's surgery or the sanctuary of a special garden shed, these stories explore the enclosed worlds in which we confine our lives. By the author of "Waterland" which won "The Guardian" Fiction Award.
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Cambridge Literature is a series of literary texts edited for study by students aged 14-18 in English-speaking classrooms. It will include novels, poetry, short stories, essays, travel-writing and other non-fiction. The series will be extensive and open-ended and will provide school students with a range of edited texts taken from a wide geographical spread.
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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.
"Swift proves throughout this ambitious collection that he is a master of his language and the construction of provocative situations."--Houston Chronicle
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- PublisherPocket
- Publication date1986
- ISBN 10 0671618342
- ISBN 13 9780671618346
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages189
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