9781471187322

Waterland

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The Booker Shortlisted Modern Classic from the author of Last Orders, Mothering Sunday and Here We Are

One summer morning in 1943, lock-keeper Henry Crick finds the drowned body of a sixteen-year-old boy. Nearly forty years later, his son Tom, a history teacher, is driven by a bizarre marital crisis and the provocation of one of his students to forsake the formal teaching of history--and tell stories . . .

Waterland is a classic of modern fiction: a vision of England seen through its mysterious, amphibious Fen country; a sinuous meditation on the workings of time; a tale of two families, startling in its twists and turns and universal in its reach. Compulsively readable, it is a novel of resonant depth and encyclopaedic richness, mixing human and natural history and exploring the tragic forces that take us both forwards and back. It is also a book about beer, eels, the French Revolution, the end of the world, windmills, will-o'-the-wisps, murder, love, education, curiosity and--supremely--the malign and merciful element of water.

'A quite brilliant novel' Daily Telegraph

'Inspired' New York Times
 

ISBN-13

9781471187322

ISBN-10

1471187322

Weight

1.00 Pounds

Dimensions

5.12 x 1.40 x 7.79 In

List Price

$12.69

Format

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Language

English

Pages

512 pages

Publisher

Scribner UK

Published On

2019-07-11



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