Waterland av Graham Swift

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<B>FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF <I>LAST ORDERS </I>AND <I>MOTHERING SUNDAY</I>, reissued for the first time in Scribner</B><BR/><BR/><B>?The classic edition of one of the 20th Century's finest novels by the winner of The Booker Prize</B><BR/><BR/> One summer morning in 1943, lock-keeper Henry Crick finds the drowned body of a sixteen-year-old boy. Nearly forty years later, his son Tom, a history teacher, is driven by a bizarre marital crisis and the provocation of one of his students to forsake the formal teaching of history—and tell stories . . .<BR/><BR/><I>Waterland</I> is a classic of modern fiction: a vision of England seen through its mysterious, amphibious Fen country; a sinuous meditation on the workings of time; a tale of two families, startling in its twists and turns and universal in its reach. Compulsively readable, it is a novel of resonant depth and encyclopaedic richness, mixing human and natural history and exploring the tragic forces that take us