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Out of This World interweaves the history of a blighted family with the tragic and ludicrous history of the twentieth century. Its alternating narrators are a father and daughter–each obsessed with the other and irrevocably estranged–surveying their losses and grievances on opposite sides of the Atlantic. "A moving, ingenious and often very ...
2 de mar. de 1993 · Audio CD. $14.99. Board book. $6.40. Out of This World interweaves the history of a blighted family with the tragic and ludicrous history of the twentieth century. Its alternating narrators are a father and daughter--each obsessed with the other and irrevocably estranged--surveying their losses and grievances on opposite sides of the Atlantic.
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Out of this World is the fourth novel by English author Graham Swift published in 1988 by Viking in the UK and by Poseidon Press in the US.
2 Graham Swift, Out of this World (London: Picador, 1997), p. 107. All subsequent cita-tions of this novel will be included in the body of the text. The page number will be preceded by the initial of the narrator of the section from which the passage in question is taken, with H standing for Harry and S for Sophie.
2 de jan. de 2009 · Out of This World , Graham Swift’s fourth novel, was published in 1988. As in almost all of his fiction, Swift focuses on the troubled relations between parents and children caught in the aftermath of past choices.
Relations between fathers and sons in particular form a recurrent strand in Swift's novels; the way in which macho posturing, whether over wars, careers or women, is crucial in creating these relationships forms a central strand of Shuttlecock, Out of this World and Last Orders. Graham Swift's novels deal with the extraordinary in the ordinary.
13 de nov. de 2008 · Out of This World -- Themes Overview. [ Victorian Web Home —> Neo-Victorianism —> Graham Swift —> Out of This World] Out of this World: An Introduction. Water: The Drowning Motif in Out of This World. "Flying" into the Future in Out of This World. Why Isn't Anybody Happy Here?
