Last orders / Graham Swift.
Record details
- ISBN: 1565117654
- ISBN: 9781565117655
- Physical Description: 7 audio discs (8 1/2 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: Minneapolis, MN : HighBridge Co., ℗2003.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "Winner of the Booker Prize"--Container. Compact disc. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Simon Prebble, Gigi Marceau Clarke, Jenny Sterlin, Ian Stewart, Gerard Doyle, Simon Jones, and Domonick Hawksley. |
Summary, etc.: | In England three working-class buddies, united by pub-drinking and World War II experiences, drive the ashes of the fourth to the sea. In the process the lives of four families and the reason no wife came emerge. |
Awards Note: | Booker Prize, 1996 |
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Subject: | Older men > Fiction. Working class > Fiction. Friendship > Fiction. England > Fiction. Death > Fiction. |
Genre: | Love stories. Psychological fiction. Audiobooks. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Beekley Community Library - New Hartford | CDBOOK F SWIFT (Text) | 32544072901415 | Adult Fiction CD | Available | - |
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Summary
Last Orders
When four men carry out another's final wishes, they are forced to take stock of who they are, who they were, and what lies in between."It ain't like your regular sort of day," Ray admits. The Coach and Horses pub in London's East End opened just five minutes ago, and Ray is already having a pint. He's soon joined by Lenny and Vic, who arrives carrying a box. Vic "twists the box round so we can see there's a white card sellotaped to one side. There's a date and a number and name: Jack Arthur Dodds."The three men, friends since World War II, have gathered to carry out Jack's last orders and deliver his ashes to the sea. A fourth comes, too, and serves as the driver: Jack's adopted son, Vince. As they move together toward the fulfillment of their mission, their errand becomes an extraordinary journey into their collective and individual pasts. Their voices-and Jack's, and that of Jack's widow Amy-combine in a choir of sorrow and resentment, passion and regret. An interwoven series of first-person narratives shifts between times and tenses, memories and revelations.A testament to a changing England, a stark portrait of its working class, and a mortality tale that hides its ambition and expertise under moving naturalism, Last Orders is a stunning achievement by one of England's greatest living writers.