Making an Elephant

Name: Making an Elephant
ISBN: 9780330451024

by Graham Swift

3/5

(98 votes)

'An immensely readable volume.

On every page, Swift emerges as a considerable essayist, who upholds the sterling virtue of good writing combined with emotional and intellectual engagement' Evening Standard As a novelist, Graham Swift delights in the possibilities of the human voice, imagining his way into the minds and hearts of an extraordinary range of characters.

In Making an Elephant, his first ever work of non-fiction, the voice is his own.

Swift brings together a richly varied selection of essays, portraits, poetry, and reflections on his life in writing, full of insights into his passions and motivations, and wise about the friends, family, and other writers who have mattered to him over the years.

Kazuo Ishiguro advises on how to choose a guitar, Salman Rushdie arrives for Christmas under guard, and Ted Hughes shares the secrets of a Devon river.

There are private moments, too, with long-dead writers, as well as musings on history and memory that readers of Swift's novels will recognize and love.

'A rewarding collection, with the same humanity and flair for detail that distinguishes Swift's fiction'TLS 'Revealing, self-deprecating, full of fascinating details.

' Edward Marriott, Observer 'Swift's essays display the same quiet intensity as his fiction, a capacity for subtle storytelling with dark emotional undercurrents' Financial Times.

First published: May 4, 2010
Publishers: Vintage
Subjects: Biographies·Memoirs·Arts·Literature·Authors·Biographies·Memoirs·Memoirs·Literature·Fiction·Authors·A-z··Swift·Graham·Literature·Fiction·Books·Reading

This took forever to read, not because I didn't like it, but it was something I could put down easily. I think it is a nice read for people who like his writing and his books.

About Graham Swift

Graham Colin Swift FRSL (born May 4, 1949) is a British author. He was born in London, England and educated at Dulwich College, London, Queens' College, Cambridge, and later the University of York. He was a friend of Ted Hughes.Some of his works have been made into films, including Last Orders, which starred Michael Caine and Bob Hoskins and Waterland which starred Jeremy Irons. Last Orders was a joint winner of the 1996 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction and a mildly controversial winner of the Booker Prize in 1996, owing to the superficial similarities in plot to William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying. Waterland was set in The Fens; it is a novel of landscape, history and family, and is often cited as one of the outstanding post-war British novels and has been a set text on the English Literature syllabus in British schools....

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