Book cover for Learning to Swim: And Other Stories by Graham Swift

Learning to Swim

And Other Stories

Graham Swift
2012 Released
192 Pages
3-4 Hours
Audiobook Unavailable
Hardback Unavailable
VintageISBN 9780307829795

The men and women in these spare, Kafkaesque stories are engaged in struggles that are no less brutal because they are fought by proxy. In Graham Swift's taut prose, these quiet combative relationships--between a mismatched couple; an aging doctor and his hypochondriacal patient; a teenage refugee swept up in the conflict between an oppressively sentimental father and his rebellious son--become a microcosm for all human cruelty and need.

"Swift proves throughout this ambitious collection that he is a master of his language and the construction of provocative situations."--Houston Chronicle

Graham Swift

Graham Swift was born in 1949. He is the author of eleven novels, most recently Here We Are; three collections of short stories, including the highly praised England and Other Stories; and Making an Elephant, a book of essays, portraits, poetry and reflections on his life in writing. With Waterland he won the Guardian Fiction Prize and with Last Orders the Booker Prize. Mothering Sunday became a worldwide bestseller and won the Hawthornden Prize for best work of imaginative literature. All three novels were made into films. His books have appeared in over thirty-five languages.  

More by Graham Swift

Waterland
Last Orders
Mothering Sunday
Shuttlecock
Out of This World
Ever After
Tomorrow
Wish You Were Here
The Light of Day
The Sweet-Shop Owner
Making an Elephant
England and Other Stories

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