Last Orders, Graham Swift

Tittle: Last Order

Writer: Graham Swift

Publisher: Picador
Edition: 1996

Pages: 296

Dimension: 18x 11x 1,8cm

Cover: Paperbacks
Language: English
Category: For Sale

Price: Rp. 
Call No.: 823/Swi/L/C.1

Status: Available

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Four man once close to Jack Dodds, a London butcher, meet to carry out his peculiar last wish: to have his ashes scattered into the sea. For reasons best known to her self, Jack's Widow, Amy, declines to join them. On the surface the tale of simple if increasingly  bizarre day's outing, Last Orders is Graham Swift's most poignant exploration of the complexity and courage of ordinary lives.

'His finest book to date; emotionally charge and technically superb...Last Orders is about how we live and how we die and our strunggle to make abidding connections between the two'

Times Literary Supplement

'A Triumph...A novel that unflincingly contemplates human  perishability, and that also pays unsentimental tribute to human resilience'

Sunday Times

'Triumpant...a ressonant work of art...a surpassing testament to swift's vibrant and powerfull gifts'

The Times

'A book to match his masterpiece Waterland...Last Orders confirms his reputation as one of the great contemporary chroniclers of landscape and memory'

Observer

'Inspired...His finest novel yet'

Guardian

'Tragic, comic and wonderfully compassionate'

Daily Mail