9780330347457 - Last Orders de Swift, Graham (8 resultados)

Condición: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. 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 book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Softcover. Condición: Bon. Couverture différente. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Good. Different cover. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.

Condición: Very good.

Hardcover. Condición: Sehr gut. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Sehr Gut. Gebundene Pappband - Ausgabe, illustrierter SchuU. 326 S. Zustand 1. .ist die Geschichte der tragikkomischen Pilgerfahrt von vier Freunden, die von London aus an die Küste fahren, um die Asche ihres verstorbenen Freundes ins Meer zu streuen.

Soft cover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Jacket Issued. 1st Edition. Signed, limited advance reader's copy in a publishers slipcase. Last Orders is a captivating tale of English working-class families in the four decades following WW II. When Jack Dodds dies suddenly of cancer after years of running a butcher shop in London, he leaves a strange request-- namely, that his ashes be scattered off Margate pier into the sea. And who could better be suited to fulfill this wish than his three oldest drinking buddies-- insurance man Ray, vegetable seller Lenny, and undertaker Vic, all of whom, like Jack himself, fought also as soldiers or sailors in the long-ago world war. Swift's narrative start with its potential for the melodramatic, is developed instead with an economy, heart, and eye that release (through the characters' own voices, one after another) the story's humanity and depth instead of its schmaltz. The jokes may be weak and self- conscious when the three old friends meet at their local pub in the company of the urn holding Jack's ashes; but once the group gets on the road, in an expensive car driven by Jack's adoptive son, Vince, the story starts gradually to move forward, cohere, and deepen. The reader learns in time why it is that no wife comes along, why three marriages out of three broke apart, and why Vince always hated his stepfather Jack and still does-- or so he thinks. There will be stories of innocent youth, suffering wives, early loves, lost daughters, secret affairs, and old antagonisms-- including a fistfight over the dead on an English hilltop, and a strewing of Jack's ashes into roiling seawaves that will draw up feelings perhaps unexpectedly strong. Without affectation, Swift listens closely to the lives that are his subject and creates a songbook of voices part lyric, part epic, part working-class social realism-- with the ring to it of the honest, human, and true. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Soft cover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. 1st Edition. RARE "Signed" Presentation Edition of the 1st American Uncorrected Page Proofs. 1996 Booker Prize Winner. New copy. Never read. Book comes in a Slip Case. Slip case is shrink wrapped. Shrink wrap has never been opened. Book and Slip Case are PERFECT. COLLECTOR'S cOPY. Signed by Author(s).

Softcover. Condición: Fine. First Edition. First American Edition. SIGNED Advance Reading Copy. Fine in printed wrappers laid-into the publisher's card slipcase. A Booker Prize winner.; Signed by Author(s).