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Last Orders

Graham Swift

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ABOUT
THE BOOK

Last Orders by Graham Swift (1996) is a Booker Prize-winning novel about four London men fulfilling the dying wish of their butcher friend, Jack Dodds: scattering his ashes at sea in Margate, exploring their lives, regrets, friendships, and family secrets through fragmented memories during a poignant road trip, with Jack’s wife, Amy, absent but central to their stories, revealing deep themes of love, loss, fate, and the quiet courage of ordinary working-class lives. 

Graham Swift

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR Graham
Swift

Graham Swift was born in 1949 and is the author of nine novels, a collection of short 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. Both novels have since been made into films. Graham Swift’s work has appeared in over thirty languages.

Graham Swift was born in 1949 and is the author of nine novels, a collection of short 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. Both novels have since been made into films. Graham Swift’s work has appeared in over thirty languages.

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Country
United Kingdom
Author
Graham Swift
Publisher
Picador
Nominating Library
Detroit Public Library - USA, Stadtbücherei Frankfurt am Main - Germany, Mariehamns Stadsbibliotek - Finland, Miami-Dade Public Library - USA

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