Waterland

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

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 03/31/1992
ISBN: 9780679739791
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.26w x 0.78d