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Some of Swift's books have been filmed, including Waterland (1992), Shuttlecock (1993), Last Orders (1996) and Mothering Sunday (2021). His novel Last Orders was joint-winner of the 1996 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction and a controversial winner of the 1996 Booker Prize, owing to the many similarities in plot and structure to William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying.
It is Swift's command of this style that make his tragic figures so interesting to the reader." [1] Publishers Weekly says "Swift's collection of tales about lovers at odds with each other exhibits strong characterizations but lacks the revelatory moments we expect from short fiction." [6]
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Shakespeare's characters engaged in it, and here they are still, in Swift's stories: rich and poor, soldiers, sailors, barbers, lawyers, doctors, all given to following a casual word to its source. This rich, lively collection reminds me of what my grandfather didn't want his son ever to forget: an English education."
The Guardian reported that Ever After met with "indifferent reviews". [2] Stephen Wall from London Review of Books gave a mixed review, concluding that that "In the end, and despite its manifestly humane intentions, the different areas of narrative interest in Ever After disperse rather than concentrate attention."
The majority of the novel is narrated by Harry, the son of Robert Beech a Victoria Cross veteran of WW1 and Harry's estranged daughter Sophie (who lives in New York). The novel is set in 1982, ten years after the death of Harry's father, in a car bomb by the IRA.
Last Orders is a 1996 novel by British writer Graham Swift. [1] The book won the 1996 Booker Prize . [ 2 ] In 2001, it was adapted for the film Last Orders by Australian writer and director Fred Schepisi .