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Title: Ever After by Graham Swift ISBN: 0-679-74026-0 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 02 March, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: ... and Even Beyond
Comment: What a poignant and eloquent account of life (or at least the illusion of being alive) by an obviously seasoned and sensitive artist!
Swift describes the sublimely vivid yet hazy realizations about a bookish yet intuitive academic's quest for the pure meaning in his life.
Delicious portraits of life in Paris, recollections of finding and losing true love and friendship, and a yearning to prove or disprove the
validity of doctrinized religion are blended amidst the collage of dabbles with sexuality, betrayal, perceptions of human nature, and the
tragic Hamlet condition of jealousy pangs for a mother who, upon close character inspection, has even further muddled the once secure
ideals regarding family and lineage. There is hardly any well-defined escape out of this complicated entangling, but the seemingly nonexistent
resolution may actually shed an enlightening view upon the meaning of existence... if you read closely enough between the lines. Savor this
one and enjoy.
Rating: 5
Summary: An allegory with a twist
Comment: Graham Swift is the last great story teller-- a combination of Ernest Hemingway and Aesop. By juxtaposing the first person narrative of a disenchanted college proffessor (sp?) and the diaries of an early believer in the evolutionary theaory of nature (Darwin), Swift spins a tale of morality without a moral, and draws paralells between the two protagonists and their respective searches for the answer to one untimelly question- does anythnig really matter? Swift's vivid yet spare prose mirrors the paradoxical nature of both his main characters. Each is at once vulnerable and cynical, courageous but exhausted, afraid to be alone, and afraid of intimacy. Swift could have ended by providing a clearly defined answer to his own characters question thus weakening the realistic tone he had set throughout. However, he refuses to tie such a neat bow. Swift merelly aknowledges that asking the question "is anything divine?" is more important than finding a concrete answer. Swift supposes finally that life is a journey made of questions and we can either rejoice in the precarious nature of such a subjective path, or allow it to cause us to despair.
On the way from page one to the last paragraph, the reader is made to sift through interesting musings concerning Shakespeare, Darwinism, Paris, male/female relationships, suicide, and academic politics.
Graham Swift is possibly the finest modern English writer, and this is quite possibly his finest novel to date.
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Title: The Sweet-Shop Owner by Graham Swift ISBN: 0679739807 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 02 March, 1993 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: Shuttlecock by Graham Swift ISBN: 0679739335 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 03 March, 1992 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Out of This World by Graham Swift ISBN: 0679740325 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 02 March, 1993 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: The Light of Day by GRAHAM SWIFT ISBN: 0375415491 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 29 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Last Orders by Graham Swift ISBN: 0679766626 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 14 January, 1997 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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