Waterland: Introduction by Tim Binding
Swift, Graham / Binding, Tim
Graham Swift's extraordinary masterpiece-a finalist for the Booker Prize-WATERLAND weaves together eels and incest, ale-making and madness, the heartless sweep of history and a family romance as tormented as Greek tragedy into one epic story.
In the flat, watery Fen Country of East Anglia, a passionate history teacher named Tom Crick is being forced into early retirement from the school where he has taught for thirty years. When a student re...