Last Orders, Graham Swift
Last Orders, Graham Swift
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Last Orders

Author: Graham Swift

Narrator: Gerard Doyle, Gigi Marceau Clarke, Jenny Sterlin, Dominic Hawksley, Simon Jones, Ian Stewart, Simon Prebble

Unabridged: 8 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/28/2003

Categories: Fiction

Synopsis

Set in Southeast England, friendship and love among a group of men whose lives have been intertwined since World War II. When one dies, the survivors are brought together and are forced to take stock of the paths their lives have taken, by choice and by accident, since the war. Winner of the 1996 Booker Prize.

About Graham Swift

Graham Swift was born in 1949. He is the author of eleven novels, three collections of short stories including the highly praised England and Other Stories and of 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 latest novel, Here We Are, was internationally acclaimed. His work has appeared in over thirty-five languages.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Vit

Our time runs faster and faster… First you count the years, the decades, then suddenly it’s hours and minutes. We live and our time is slowly petering out. We pass away but to those who knew us we leave memories. And if these memories are good we will be remembered longer. It evens out, because in one......more

Goodreads review by Kevin

This uneventful novel was the Booker Prize winner of 1996. I glimpsed fleeting moments of literary excellence but the book's prosaic conversational style wasn't for me. It also pained me to see ain't without its apostrophe on almost every page! Aint that annoying?......more

Goodreads review by Kinga

This was easily the least exciting Booker Prize winner I’ve ever read. You know that other London all us new hipster Londoners never get to know? Even though we all live together, on the same streets, we are divided by our pubs. There are the new hipster pubs with craft beer and a cosmopolitan atmos......more

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