Learning to Swim and Other Stories

Swift, Graham

ISBN 10: 0330287702 / ISBN 13: 9780330287708

Published by Pan Books, 1985

About this Item

Book falling away from spine at page 60. Pagestoned with age. Otherwise a clean, unmarked copy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Learning to Swim and Other Stories
• Publisher: Pan Books
• Publication Date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0330287702
• ISBN 13: 9780330287708
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

‘Graham Swift has shown that he has an authority - of style, characterization, grasp of life. These concentrated enigmatic stories address their subjects with such intelligent conviction and clarity that their ambiguities are not left to be stumbled on by the reader, but are challengingly displayed. They are like James’s stories in the way they apply an almost scientific analytical cleverness to the things in life which are forever vague, painful or imponderable’ Times Literary Supplement

‘The ties that bind people, the good and bad things they do to each other, the happiness, embarrassment and the pain that they cause their friends, their partners, their children - these are Graham Swift’s chief concerns. He has a wide range; he can be delicately sensitive or outrageously funny. He is a born storyteller’ Daily Telegraph

Book Description

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.