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Waterland is a 1983 novel by Graham Swift. It is considered to be the author's premier novel and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize (a prize Swift finally achieved with Last Orders).
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Contemplative, grave, prestige and character-led.
- contemplativerelentless
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Graham Swift, Graham Swift
- First published
- September 7, 1984
- Pages
- 358
- Publisher
- Pan Books, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Claassen
- Editions
- 34
- Language
- Spanish, English, French
- ISBN
- 9780330491877
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