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Title: Wish You Were Here
Author: Graham Swift
Narrator: John Lee
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
Language: English
Release date: 04-17-12
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 14 votes
Genres: Fiction, Literary
Publisher's Summary:
On an autumn day in 2006, on the Isle of Wight, Jack Luxton, former Devon farmer and now the proprietor of a seaside caravan park, receives the news that his soldier brother, Tom, not seen for years, has been killed in Iraq.
For Jack and his wife, Ellie, this will have a potentially catastrophic impact. For Jack in particular it means a crucial journey - to receive his brothers remains, but it is also a journey into his own most secret, troubling memories and into the land of his and Ellies past.
Wish You Were Hereis both a gripping account of things that touch and test our human core and a resonant novel about a changing England. Rich with Graham Swifts love of the local and full of humor and tenderness in the face of tragedy, it is also, inescapably, about a wider, afflicted world. Moving toward an almost unbearably tense climax, it allows us to feel the stuff of headlines - the return of a dead soldier from a foreign war - as heartwrenching personal truth.
Graham Swift is the author of eight novels, including the Booker Prizewinning Last Orders and Waterland, which won the Guardian Fiction Award. His work has been translated into more than 30 languages. He lives in London.
Critic Reviews:
Swift weaves a story which is as much a lament for a vanished way of life as an attack on the madness of modernity. With unmistakable echoes of Thomas Hardy and E. M. Forster, he portrays a rural England that is no longer merely under threat, but has been comprehensively vanquished. (Times Literary Supplement(London))
