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Out of this World is the fourth novel by English author Graham Swift published in 1988 by Viking in the UK [1] and by Poseidon Press in the US. [2] Plot. The majority of the novel is narrated by Harry, the son of Robert Beech a Victoria Cross veteran of WW1 and Harry's estranged daughter Sophie (who lives in New York).
1 de ene. de 1988 · In 1972 Robert Beech, First World War survivor and present-day armaments maker, is killed by a car bomb. The event breaks the career of his son Harry, a news photographer, and comes close to destroying his granddaughter Sophie.
Out of this World (Viking Press, 1988) is Graham Swift's fourth major novel. One imagines that this work must have been very difficult to write, following as it does the magical Waterland, which received unanimous critical acclaim.
Out of This World interweaves the history of a blighted family with the tragic and ludicrous history of the twentieth century. Its alternating narrators are a father and daughter–each obsessed with the other and irrevocably estranged–surveying their losses and grievances on opposite sides of the Atlantic.
Graham Swift 's novel "Out of This World" is the story of the Beech family. The central characters are Harry Beech, and his daughter Sophie. The novel focuses on the theme of estrangement...
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LAST ORDERS AND MOTHERING SUNDAY, reissued for the first time in Scribner In 1972, Robert Beech, First World War veteran and prominent figure in the arms industry, is killed by a car bomb.
Out of This World. Graham Swift. Pan Macmillan UK, Jun 1, 2010 - Fiction - 208 pages. From the Booker Prize-winning author of Last Orders, Waterland and England. In 1972, Robert Beech, First...
