Waterland
Graham Swift
368 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0330336320
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Language: English
Publish: January 1, 1999
20th CenturyBritish LiteratureClassicsContemporaryFictionHistoricalHistorical FictionLiterary FictionLiteratureNovels
Set in the bleak Fen Country of East Anglia, and spanning some 240 years in the lives of its haunted narrator and his ancestors, Waterland is a book that takes in eels and incest, ale-making and madness, the heartless sweep of history and a family romance as tormented as any in Greek tragedy.