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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]
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."
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Waterland is a 1983 novel by Graham Swift published by William Heinemann. It is set in The Fens of eastern England. It won the Guardian Fiction Prize, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. [1] In 1992, it was adapted into a film directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal, starring Jeremy Irons. [2]
We have heard the dying fall of their voices. It is when Swift's own voice comes out, now and then, meditating through Harry on the responsibilities of art, craft and life, that his book relinquishes the wasp-buzzing of its characters, and sets off the sudden flash of a wasp's sting. [4]
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."
Hannah Beckerman, writing in The Guardian, regards the novel as perhaps being Swift's best novel yet. "Stylistically, Mothering Sunday features the restrained and yet emotive prose for which Swift is renowned...And when the story’s shocking revelation is delivered – two-thirds of the way through the novel – it is described by Swift so sparsely, so economically, that the impact is both ...