The Light of Day
Language: English
Published by Random House Canada Ltd. Toronto, 2003
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: M.A.D. fiction, Grimsby, ON, CanadaM.A.D. fiction
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First Canadian edition thus (preceded by the 2003 U.K. hardcover release) first printing of an as new hardcover in an as new dustjacket. Set in Wimbledon England U.K. Featuring George a P.I. recounting the story of his ex-client Sarah, in prison for her husbands murder, and the events leading up to it.
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- Title
- The Light of Day
- Author
- Graham Swift
- Publisher
- Random House Canada Ltd. Toronto
- Publication year
- 2003
- Condition
- As New
- Dust jacket
- As New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0679312455
- ISBN 13
- 9780679312451
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
This new novel from Graham Swift -- his first since the Booker Prize-winning Last Orders -- is the work of a master storyteller. The Light of Day is a luminous and gripping tale of love, murder and redemption.
George Webb is a divorced ex-policeman turned private investigator, a man whose prospects seemed in ruins not so long ago. Following the course of a single, dazzling day in George’s life, the novel illuminates not only his past but his now all-consuming relationship with a former client.
Intimate and intricate in its evocation of daily existence, The Light of Day achieves a singular intensity and almost unbearable suspense. Tender and humorous in its depiction of life’s surface, Swift explores the depths and extremities of what lies within us and how, for better or worse, it’s never too late to discover what they are.
Excerpt from The Light of Day
Two years ago and a little more. October still, but a day like today, blue and clear and crisp. Rita opened my door and said, “Mrs. Nash.”
I was already on my feet, buttoning my jacket. Most of them have no comparisons to go on -- it’s their first time. It must feel like coming to a doctor. They expected something shabbier, seedier, more shaming. The tidy atmosphere, Rita’s doing, surprises and reassures them. And the vase of flowers.
White chrysanthemums, I recall.
“Mrs. Nash, please have a seat.”
I could be some high-street solicitor. A fountain-pen in my fingers. Doctor, solicitor -- marriage guidance counsellor. You have to be a bit of all three.
The usual look of plucked-up courage, swallowed-back hesitation, of being somewhere they’d rather not be.
“My husband is seeing another woman.”
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