SWIFT, GRAHAM (1949)
Last orders


Picador, London. 1996. First edition. First printing. Paperback. Octavo.

296 pp. 11,25 x 17,75 x 2 cm. 160 gr. Cover photograph by Carol Sharp. ISBN-10 0330347454. ISBN-13 97880330347457.


Jack Dodds has died, and his three close friends travel together to pay their last respects and take his ashes to Margate Pier and scatter them into the sea, Jack's final wish. As the journey develops via Rochester, Chatham and Canterbury, the characters tell their different life stories.


The title was shortlisted for the 1996 Booker Prize. Graham Colin Swift FRSL (born 4 May 1949) is an English writer. Born in London, England, he was educated at Dulwich College, London, Queens' College, Cambridge, and later the University of York. Some of Swift's books have been filmed, including Last Orders, - adapted into the 2001 film starring Michael Caine, Helen Mirren, Bob Hoskins, Ray Winstone, David Hemmings and Tom Courtenay - and Waterland, starring Jeremy Irons. Last Orders was joint-winner of the 1996 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction and a mildly controversial winner of the 1996 Booker Prize, owing to the superficial similarities in plot to William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying.


Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Edges browned. One reading crease on spine.


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