Making an Elephant: Writing from Within

Swift, Graham

ISBN 10: 0307270998 ISBN 13: 9780307270993

Editorial: Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2009

Idioma: Ingl�s

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8vo, 401 pp.

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T�tulo

Making an Elephant: Writing from Within

Editor

Alfred A. Knopf, New York

Fecha de publicaci�n

2009

Idioma

Ingl�s

ISBN 10

0307270998

ISBN 13

9780307270993

Encuadernaci�n

hardcover

Edici�n

1st.

Estado

Fine copy in fine dust jacket

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Sobrecubierta no Incluida

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Autobiography

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In his first-ever work of nonfiction, the Booker Prize�winning author of such acclaimed novels as Waterland and Last Orders gives us a highly personal book: a singular and open-spirited account of a writer�s life.

As generous in its scope as it is acute in its observations, Making an Elephant brings together a richly varied selection of essays, portraits, poetry and interviews, full of insights into Graham Swift�s passions and motivations, and wise about the friends, family and other writers who have mattered to him over the years. Kazuo Ishiguro advises on how to choose a guitar; Salman Rushdie arrives for Christmas under guard; Caryl Phillips shares a beer with the author at a nightclub in Toronto. There are private moments with his father and with his own younger self, as well as musings on history, memory and imagination that illuminate the work of a writer who, in his fiction, regards it as �a mark of achievement� when his own voice and presence vanish into his characters.

A journey through place and time, conversation, encounters and ideas, Making an Elephant brims with charm and candor, an alertness to experience and a true engagement with words�in short, with what it means to believe that writing and reading are an essential part of living.

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Graham Swift lives in London and is the author of eight novels: The Sweet-Shop Owner; Shuttlecock, which received the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize; Waterland, which was short-listed for the Booker Prize and won The Guardian Fiction Award, the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize and the Italian Premio Grinzane Cavour; Out of This World; Ever After, which won the French Prix du Meilleur Livre �tranger; Last Orders, which was awarded the Booker Prize; The Light of Day; and, most recently, Tomorrow. He is also the author of Learning to Swim, a collection of short stories. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages.

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