{"product_id":"england-and-other-stories-swift-graham","title":"England and Other Stories, Swift Graham","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThese 25 new short stories, written to go together and none of them previously published, mark Booker Prize-winning Graham Swift's return to the short form after 7 acclaimed novels, and affirm him as a master storyteller.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e     Swift's England is a richly peopled country that is both a crucible of history and a maze of contemporary confusions. Meet Dr. Shah who has never been to India and Mrs. Kaminski, on her way to Poland by way of her hospital bed. Meet Holly and Polly who have come to their own Anglo-Irish understanding, and Lily Hobbs, married to a shirt. There's Charlie and Don, who have seen the docks turn into the Docklands; Daisy Baker, who is terrified of Yorkshire; and Johnny Dewhurst, of Leeds, lost on Exmoor.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e     Graham Swift steers us effortlessly from the Civil War to the present day, and the secret dramas contained within walls, rooms, homes, workplaces. With his remarkable sense of place and voice, he charts an intimate geography that moves us profoundly and yet at times makes us laugh out loud. Binding these stories together is his grasp of the universal in the local and his affectionate but unflinching instinct for narrative. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eEngland and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e evokes that mysterious body that is a nation by giving us the palpable sense of individual bodies finding or losing their way in the nationless territories of birth, love, sex, aging and death.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon And Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":61421880934734,"sku":"9781471137419","price":5.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0842\/6546\/8238\/files\/9781471137419.jpg?v=1793194672","url":"https:\/\/littlelanebookshop.com\/products\/england-and-other-stories-swift-graham","provider":"Little Lane Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}