Making an Elephant : Writing from Within

Swift, Graham

ISBN 10: 0307357201 / ISBN 13: 9780307357205

Published by Random House Canada, 2009

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Bibliographic Details

Title: Making an Elephant : Writing from Within

Publisher: Random House Canada

Publication Date: 2009

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis:

From the acclaimed Booker Prize–winning author of Last Orders, this highly personal book is a singular and open-spirited account of a writer’s life.

In Making an Elephant, Swift brings together richly varied essays, portraits, poetry and interviews, full of insights into his passions and motivations, and wise about the friends, family and other writers who have mattered to him over the years. Kazuo Ishiguro advises on how to choose a guitar, Salman Rushdie arrives for Christmas under guard, and Ted Hughes shares the secrets of a Devon river. There are private moments, too, with long-dead writers, as well as musings on history and memory that readers of Swift’s novels will recognize and love.

Making an Elephant is a book of encounters: between a son and his father, between an author and his younger selves, between writer and reader, and between friends. It brims with charm and candour, and reveals Swift’s alertness to experience and his true engagement with words.

About the Author:

Graham Swift was born in 1949 in London, where he lives and works. He is the author of nine acclaimed novels and a short story collection. His many awards include the Booker Prize, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and the Winnifred Holtby Memorial Prize. Two of his novels have been made into movies and his work has been translated into over thirty languages.