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Waterland

by Graham Swift · 1983

Literary Fiction · ranked #152 in category

Tom Crick, a history teacher who is about to lose his job, tells his class the story of the Fens — the flat, watery landscape of East Anglia — and of the events of his own past that have shaped him. Swift's formally inventive novel interweaves personal history with natural history, asking what history is and whether it teaches anything.

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The verdict

Category
Literary Fiction
First published
1983 · 1980s
Author
Graham Swift
Standing
Essential Read

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