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These 25 new stories indicate Graham Swift's go back to the brief form after seven acclaimed novels and validate him as a master storyteller. They unite into a richly peopled eye-sight of an country that is both a crucible of record and a maze of modern day confusions. Meet Dr Shah, who has never been to India, and Mrs Kaminski, on her way to Poland with a & E; meet Holly and Polly who've come to their own Anglo-Irish understanding and Lily Hobbs, married to a shirt; Charlie and Don, who've seen the docks become Docklands; Mr Wilkinson, the weirdo next door; Daisy Baker, who is terrified of Yorkshire; and Johnny Dewhurst, stranded on Exmoor. Graham Swift steers us effortlessly from the Civil Battle to the present day, from world-shaking events to the trick dramas resided out in rooms, workplaces, homes. Along with his remarkable sense of place, he charts an intimate human being geography. In doing so he moves us profoundly, but with a constant eye for humor. Binding these stories along is Swift's knowledge of the universal in the neighborhood and his affectionate but unflinching instinct for the storyplot folks all: an evocation of that mysterious body that is clearly a land, deepened by the palpable sense of our own individual systems finding or shedding their way in the nationless territory of labor and birth, growing up, making love, ageing, and death.
