6/20/2023 0 Comments Waterland swiftMassie called it “a masterly and intricate narrative” that is “profoundly and unmistakably English” and concluded that Swift “is undoubtedly one of the writers. 1 General discussions of contemporary fiction such as Allan Massie’s The Novel Today and Malcolm Bradbury’s The Modern British Novel have singled it out for considerable praise. Thomas’s The White Hotel (1981) and Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children (1981), as one of the most important British novels of its decade. I n early 1983, England’s William Heinemann and America’s Poseidon Press, a hardback division of Simon and Schuster, introduced their readers to Graham Swift’s Waterland, a novel reviewed so positively and read so enthusiastically that it quickly began to appear on reading lists, to become central to discussions of postmodernism, and to be recognized, along with D.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |