
Waterland
$8.63
Best Sellers Rank: 213991 in Books
Binding : Paperback
ISBN-10 : 0679739793
Language : English
Publisher : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group; Reissue edition
Publication Date : March 31, 1992
Pages : 368
Set in the bleak Fen Country of East Anglia, and spanning some 240 years in the lives of its haunted narrator and his ancestors, Waterland is a book that takes in eels and incest, ale-making and madness, the heartless sweep of history and a family romance as tormented as any in Greek tragedy."Waterland, like the Hardy novels, carries with all else a profound knowledge of a people, a place, and their interweaving.... Swift tells his tale with wonderful contemporary verve and verbal felicity.... A fine and original work."--Los Angeles Times