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	Graham Swift (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Novelist Graham Swift was born in London in 1949.
		Graham Swift is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
		Graham Swift's novels are all ambitious in their own ways in their thematic and narrative scope.
	www.contemporarywriters.com /authors/?p=auth93 (1675 words)

	BookPage Interview
		Swift has one of his Victorian characters come face to face with the fossilized remains of an ichthyosaurus.
		Swift explains that his novels spring from "rather fragmentary, incidental images." In the case of Ever After, it was the image of a boy watching through a window as ballerinas practice.
		Swift describes the first stages of his writing as "a strange mixture of having a plan and groping in the dark." He talks about knowing that his novel has to have a certain shape -- a shape he grasps only by intuition.
	www.bookpage.com /BPinterviews/swift492.html (946 words)

	SwiftWeb - Tornseglare-Common Swift-Mauersegler-Apus-Apus
		Swift Colony at Oxford University Museum of Natural History
		Swifts in a Tower - David Lack (1980)
		The Museum Swifts - Andrew Lack and Roy Overall (2002)
	www.catweb.se /swiftweb (151 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Graham Swift (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Graham Swift was born in South East London in May 1949.
		Swift's view of literature can, in part, be drawn from the address he gave in June 1987 to the International Writers' Union.
		For Swift, the English novel is the confessional of a secular society — but one which needs to escape from its inhibitions in order to confess more freely the social, political and cultural difficulties of our time.
	www.literaryencyclopedia.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5071 (2855 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Authors \| Swift, Graham
		Swift comments that "without my having begun the book - or continued writing it - with that novel constantly in my mind, I think there is a little homage at work".
		Swift made his name with the many-layered Fens-based Waterland, a richly vivid tale of an area's history and a family's myth, so intensely told that critics were surprised to hear he came from south London and didn't believe in autobiographical writing.
		Graham Swift was born in south London, where he still lives, and the area's particular kind of Englishness infuses his novels.
	books.guardian.co.uk /authors/author/0,5917,-128,00.html (285 words)

	..: English Story >>> Graham Swift >>> Biography :.. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Graham Swift was born in south London, not far from Bermondsey, where the characters in Last Orders live.
		Though he was born in 1949, most of Graham Swift's fiction touches upon War World II in some way while exploring the larger subject of history, its meaning and its effects upon those who live it.
		Graham Swift's dedication to the art of the novel is single-minded.
	www.englishstory.by.ru /swift?extract=1127333192 (2840 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Swift Graham
		Swift, Graham (1949- ), English novelist and short-story writer.
		Swift (lizard), common name for members of a genus of agile lizards.
		Swifts are found in abundance in North America, Mexico, and Central America....
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Swift_Graham.html (113 words)

	'The Light of Day' by Graham Swift
		In the past decade, the narrator of Graham Swift's exquisite seventh novel lost his job, watched his marriage go up in smoke and nearly botched his chance at fatherhood.
		Swift, however, never deviates from the axis of memory and morality, so much so that this book can feel hermetic at times.
		But Swift is not about to let go until our lungs are completely starved, until our vision is blurry from lack of oxygen.
	www.post-gazette.com /books/reviews/20030511swift0511p5.asp (685 words)

	Common Swift - Apus Apus
		The Swifts took to the nestbox immediately and within five days there was a feather and thistledown nest at the back of the box.
		At least one, and usually two, Swifts roosted in the nestbox nightly from 10-28 July, the date they were last seen.
		On 8th May 2000, Graham turned on the camera and much to his delight a Swift, busily preening at the back of the nestbox, appeared on his TV screen.
	www.commonswift.org /colony_Portsmouth.html (718 words)

	History, His Story, and Stories in Graham Swift's Waterland
		Graham Swift's Waterland (1983), a novel cast in the form of a fictional autobiography, has much to tell us about the fate, even the possibility, of autobiography in the late twentieth century.
		Swift's narrator himself admits that his "earliest acquaintance with history was thus, in a form issuing from my mother's lips, inseparable from her other bedtime make-believe -- how Alfred burnt the cakes, how Canute commanded the waves, how King Charles hid in an oak tree -- as if history were a pleasing invention" (53).
		Swift raises the problem of the erotics of the text in the context of explaining his wife's curiosity as a fifteen year old back in that halcyon year, 1943.
	members.fortunecity.com /jusdo/HTMLobj-936/waterland.html (4981 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| By genre \| Profile: Graham Swift
		Swift's reaction was one of total horror and incomprehension: "What was it about?" he says, genuinely lost for words.
		Swift found the regime restrictive: "Becoming a writer or an artist or anything like that was not really the done thing," he says.
		Swift is in the very early stages of a new book, so one reason for not talking about it "is that it may bear no relationship to what actually emerges," he says.
	books.guardian.co.uk /departments/generalfiction/story/0,6000,904963,00.html (3346 words)

	Graham Swift - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Graham Colin Swift (born May 4, 1949) is a well-known British author.
		He was born in London, England and educated at Queens' College, Cambridge.
		Although Swift won the Booker prize for Last Orders in 1996, many consider Waterland to be his premier novel.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Graham_Swift (145 words)

	SALON: Glowing in the ashes
		Swift's dedication to the art of the novel is single-minded.
		At times Swift may seem to belong more to the 19th century than to our own.
		In his new book, "Last Orders," Swift follows a quartet of older men from working-class Bermondsey in South London to the sea at Margate, on a mission to dispose of the ashes of their friend and wartime comrade, a butcher with a troubled family.
	www.salon.com /weekly/swift960506.html (2550 words)

	Graham Swift, Ever After: a study in intertextuality
		Graham Swift is generally ranged among the less adventurous writers as far as his (knowing) use of intertextuality is concerned: his writings belong to a moderate, 'muted' postmodernism (Broich 1993: 38).
		The figure of Hamlet is, of course, an unusually rich intertextual source for the construction of Swift's narrator because Hamlet cannot be reduced to a single interpretation: Hamlet is a brooding and an acting figure, he is melancholic and witty, suicidal and murderous, Oedipus and suitor of Ophelia.
		Characters are perhaps the main focus in Swift's novels: 'Over all, though, towers Swift's interest in his characters' confessions [...] his deep commitment to viewing them within the historical ties linking past and present' (Higdon 1991: 181).
	webdoc.sub.gwdg.de /edoc/ia/eese/artic98/jacobm/88_98.html (3259 words)

	The Light of Day by Graham Swift - read excerpt
		Tender and humorous in its depiction of life’s surface, Swift explores the depths and extremities of what lies within us and how, for better or worse, it’s never too late to discover what they are.
		Graham Swift was born in Catford, South London in 1949.
		His father was a civil servant, working at the National Debt Office and served a as a naval pilot in WW II; his mother lived through the bombing of London.
	mostlyfiction.com /excerpts/lightofday.htm (1440 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Programmes \| Newsnight \| Review \| Graham Swift's The Light Of Day
		But Graham Swift has resolutely refused to live up to his surname and has waited seven years after winning the Booker for Last Orders to publish his new novel The Light Of Day.
		A reading from Graham Swift's new novel about the relationship of a prisoner and a private detective who visits her.
		The change in time from the events of one day, the flash backs which Graham Swift uses to tell the story of how this peculiar love affair came into being, that is realised with real precision and skill.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/programmes/newsnight/review/2806197.stm (760 words)

	The Light of Day by Graham Swift - read review
		Swift is successful in making Webb -- his thoughts, his beliefs, and his feelings -- real.
		In a style reminiscent of traditional British novels, author Graham Swift draws out fragments of the past from the memories of these four men.
		Swift coaxes emotion out of four reserved men, telling their stories in their own words, preserving their own unique speech pattern of Bermondsey.
	mostlyfiction.com /world/swift.htm (1528 words)

	Chemistry - AQA Anthology for GCSE
		It contains a detailed study of Graham Swift's Chemistry, one of the prose texts in the AQA Anthology, which is a set text for the AQA's GCSE syllabuses for English and English Literature Specification A, from the 2004 exam onwards.
		Swift began writing stories in his teens and taught English literature at various colleges until he became a full-time writer in 1983.
		Graham Swift's novels have won various awards and been translated into many languages.
	www.eriding.net /amoore/anthology/chemistry.htm (2671 words)

	The Light of Day - Graham Swift
		"Swift is good on the mechanics of infidelity and the virus of deceit and he ticks all the right psychological boxes.
		Swift consistently uses complex and unconventional narrative strategies to explore his grand themes of the past's encroachment on the present and the link between private stories and public histories.
		British author Graham Swift was born in 1949.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/swiftg/lightday.htm (1816 words)

	The Light of Day by Graham Swift, reviews, links and opinions, book club reading suggestions
		Swift is a virtuoso of narrative ventriloquism; he inhabits his characters through their voices.
		Swift's approach is nothing if not complex, yet we are rarely confused, often moved and never bored.
		We are kept in the dark until Swift's time-frame grants us light, but find so much treasure on the way we hardly notice how many pages pass before we fall upon a scene that partially explains the mystery created several chapters ago.
	www.book-club.co.nz /books03/3lightofday.htm (1454 words)

	Random House \| Authors \| Graham Swift
		Graham Swift is the author of six novels, including the Booker Prize-winning Last Orders.
		Dazzling in its structure and shattering in its emotional force, Graham Swift's Ever After spans two centuries and settings from the adulterous bedrooms of postwar Paris to the contemporary entanglements in the groves of academe.
		In Graham Swift's taut prose, these quiet combative relationships--between a mismatched couple; an aging doctor and his hypochondriacal patient; a teenage refugee swept up in the conflict...
	www.randomhouse.com /author/results.pperl?authorid=30410 (440 words)

	Office of Public Affairs at Yale - News Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Swift is the author of seven books, including "Shuttlecock," "Waterland," "Ever After" -- winner of the Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger (Best Foreign Book Prize) in France in 1992 -- and "Last Orders," for which he won the 1996 Booker Prize.
		In speaking of his own work, Swift says: "If I have any abiding allegiance in my writing it is to the power of the imagination, and I hope my imagination will always surprise and stretch me and take me along unsuspected paths.
		Born in south London in 1949, Swift attended Dulwich College and studied at Cambridge and York University.
	www.yale.edu /opa/newsr/03-05-01-02.all.html (298 words)

	Graham Swift -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Swift grew up in South London and was educated at Dulwich College, York University, and Queens' College, Cambridge (B.A., 1970; M.A., 1975).
		In the second half of the 20th century, Billy Graham was known the world over for his entertaining style of evangelism.
		The blitzkrieg was a swift and formidable method of warfare that was employed by the Nazis in their invasion of such countries as France and Norway.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9099884?tocId=9099884 (809 words)

	Last Orders
		When Graham Swift's novel "Last Orders" was published in 1996 it speedily garnered two distinctions.
		But since by worldly standards all these characters are losers Swift would no doubt prefer to consider it a study in the still, sad music of humanity - the lower classes leading lives of not so quiet desperation and sometimes finding a pocket or two of hard won happiness.
		His wonderful exhibition of art hiding art won't win him any awards - he's not a name and his role is not obviously enough sympathetic - but it is a performance worth, to coin a phrase, the price of admission in itself.
	www.llamagraphics.com /Meadow/Books/bookLastOrders.html (916 words)

	Graham Swift Biography
		Graham (Colin) Swift was born May 4, 1949, in London, England, the son of Allan Stanley and Sheila Irene (Bourne) Swift.
		Swift attended Dulwich College, in South London, from 1960 to 1967.
		Swift’s first novel, The Sweet-Shop Owner, was published in 1980 and records the memories of a dying shopkeeper.
	www.enotes.com /waterland/16315 (195 words)

	Amazon.com: The Sweet-Shop Owner (Vintage International): Books: Graham Swift (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		This brilliant and elegant first novel by Graham Swift folds 40 years of memories into a single day in the life of a remarkable and yet perfectly ordinary man's life.
		I was browsing the FAQ on Elizabeth George's website where it said that Graham Swift was one of her favorite authors.
		Here, Graham Swift looks at boundaries: The narrow geographical boundaries of the small London suburb in which the story is set ("We never moved out of these narrow bounds.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679739807?v=glance (1176 words)

	Books at Random House of Canada \| The Light of Day by Graham Swift
		This new novel from Graham Swift -- his first since the Booker Prize-winning Last Orders -- is the work of a master storyteller.
		“ [Swift] is a wonderfully original writer and his new work lives up to his reputation as one of England’s finest living novelists…an intriguing, even mystifying story of the power of passion, murder and redemption”
		Graham Swift was born in 1949 in London.
	www.randomhouse.ca /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679312468 (912 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Swift, Graham at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Swift's traditional technique of juxtaposing present and past comes into play yet again: in this novel, the protagonist seeks reconciliation with his personal history.
		Swift does best at the minute details; his stroke of the brush is masterly.
		Swift goes one step further in showing us the truth lying underneath this facade.
	www.epinions.com /book-review-19F4-34C4083-39336248-prod5 (676 words)

	Graham Swift (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Graham Swift was born in south London, not far from Bermondsey.
		His father was a civil servant who had served as a naval pilot in World War II.
		Major themes in Swift's stories are about enduring morality, human need, and tenderness.
	www.yudev.com /mfo/britlit/swift_graham.htm (277 words)

	Graham Swift Interview with Don Swaim (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Graham Swift, author of The Light of Day, Waterland and Ever After, journeys from London to visit New York for the first time.
		Swift discusses another job he once had working in an mental hospital.
		Don Swaim and Graham Swift also discuss what, if any, viable alternatives there are to mental hospitals.
	wiredforbooks.org /grahamswift (139 words)

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