Last Orders

by GRAHAM SWIFT | Nonfiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0679412247 Global Overview for this book
Registered by dospescados on 1/11/2006
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Journal Entry 1 by dospescados on Wednesday, January 11, 2006
bought at the Salvation Army, Tuscarora Rd., Chittenango, NY

from the dust jacket:

Graham Swift's first novel since the highly acclaimed Ever After is a subtle yet deeply felt exploration of the ways in which friendship and love are shaped by the past and by fate.

At its center is a group of men, friends since the Second World War, whose lives revolve around work, family, the racetrack, and their favorite pub. Now, the death of one of them, and the survivors' task of driving their friend's ashes from London to the seaside town where they'll be scattered, compels them to take stock. Through conversation and memory they trace the paths they have followed by choise and by accident: through war and its aftermath, through the dramas of their family lives and of their shifting relationships with one another.

In brilliantly realized, richly humorous voices, Swift has created a narrative language that perfectly expresses not only the comforts of old habits and friendships but the profound emotional revelations this brief but far-reaching journey will bring them.

Vivid and immediate, yet timeless in its portrait of human folly, affection, and resilience in the face of death, Last Orders is Graham Swift's funniest and most moving novel to date.

published 1996 (1st American ed.), 295 pages, hardcover

Journal Entry 2 by dospescados on Thursday, March 16, 2006
Since I won't get to this before I move in June or even any time soon after that, this book might as well travel. I've offered it for tantan's series of Booker rings. Her site for the project can be found here and the book's page on the site here.

Participants:
tania-in-nc (Mooresville, NC, USA) <----------here
lady-anglophile (Kuwait)
meganh (Gisborne, VIC, Australia)
dodau (Bristol, England)
jazz-ee2 (Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England)
Lillyanna (Alhaurín de la Torre, Málaga, Spain)
home to dospescados in Bloomington, IN, USA

Journal Entry 3 by tania-in-nc from Mooresville, North Carolina USA on Wednesday, March 22, 2006
This arrived safely today. I started The Shipping News by Annie Proulx, c. 1993, yesterday but I imagine I will be able to start this shortly. Thanks for sharing!

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