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Plot. The majority of the novel is narrated by Harry, the son of Robert Beech a Victoria Cross veteran of WW1 and Harry's estranged daughter Sophie (who lives in New York). The novel is set in 1982, ten years after the death of Harry's father, in a car bomb by the IRA.
- United Kingdom
- Graham Swift
- English
Reminiscent of George Bernard Shaw’s MAJOR BARBARA, though lacking the play’s satirical wit and humor, OUT OF THIS WORLD is the story of Harry Beech’s falling out with his father Robert,...
1 de jan. de 1988 · In 1972 Robert Beech, First World War survivor and present-day armaments maker, is killed by a car bomb. The event breaks the career of his son Harry, a news photographer, and comes close to destroying his granddaughter Sophie. Ten years later, the Falklands War has begun and both Harry, now working as an aerial photographer, and ...
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Graham Swift 's novel "Out of This World" is the story of the Beech family. The central characters are Harry Beech, and his daughter Sophie. The novel focuses on the theme of estrangement...
Summary. In his next novel after Waterland, the undeservedly less admired Out of This World, Graham Swift again attempts a large-scale history of the twentieth Century principally in terms of its warfare. This is told by way of the family history of the Beeches, whose wealth is founded on armaments manufacture, devel- oped especially by the ...
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.
Out of this World (Viking Press, 1988) is Graham Swift's fourth major novel. One imagines that this work must have been very difficult to write, following as it does the magical Waterland, which received unanimous critical acclaim. Swift kept this book a secret until he was ready to publish, perhaps in an effort to protect himself.
