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Pros

The fens of east anglia are the inspiration for this novel. The fenlands are integral to the story, even when the ostensible setting is in greenwich. The significance of greenwich as the setting for those parts of the story which take place outside th...  Read More

History is the constant re-invention of ideas, ideals and results. Life was harder then, much harder than now. It matters not whether we have learned from the past, for we are constantly doomed to repeat its consequences anyway.

Graham swift does a masterful job of weaving together multiple narrative threads as the story progresses to its ultimate conclusion. Swift is able to make us feel sympathy for this character all the while that the character is using the trials and tri...  Read More

The narrative voice of this novel is almost hypnotic. It takes some early work to enter the flow, but what a wonderful inertia is gained. Once into the second half of the book, the story really starts to unfold.



Cons

The novel drags on and on. Tells the story in circles (and being excruciatingly slow) there are far to many unengagingly sketchy characters. The novel concludes focusing on the least interesting of them all.

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Quality


The novel which vibrantly paints the portrait of an emotionally tortured familys history deals headon with the subject of history


The book is full of wonders which flow with the seep and power of the fens themselves


You just cant and you will have to bear the sorrowful burden with the rest of us


Much of our reading in that class dealt with the perception and negotiation of time in narrative

Price


This was a fear which was very real in the seventies and eighties price reminded me vividly of some of my own school contemporaries


Waterland is required reading for those with an interest in modern fiction

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Though knowing that dick would kill himself i was carried in total suspense through each line of the chapter into the oozing de...  Read More

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I was completely captivated by the storys unique blending of not only a familys history but also a history of a town and the w...  Read More


Crick experiences loss on every level the loss of a child the loss of his wifes sanity the loss of his family and the loss of h...  Read More


It is a scandalous account of a familys rise and fall from political and monetary bliss to their eventual downfall caused by ...  Read More


Indeed it is less traditional than “the levels”

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  • This product had a total of 512 reviews as of our last analysis date on Sep 25 2022.

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    To avoid spoiling the experiencei am reluctant to discuss the plot except to say that it starts with a history teacher who was raised as a child in the fenlands and is now closing off his career in a forced retirement in conflict with the modern view of history being irrelevant or at an end


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    While the writings of these theorists and others provided a foundation for the theoretical perspectives specifically semiotics and structuralism necessary for the class primary texts i became more interested in narrative strategies especially in swifts treatment of memory history and his resituating see de caro and jordan 2004 of verbal art storytelling in a literary context


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    And my father who was a superstititious man liked to do things in such a way as would make them seem magical and occult


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Memory is influenced by so many variables making the acquisition of a real past or a real history an impossibility


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    These stories do deform and flow out of control in swifts socalled here and now when nature reclaims manmade morality and perspective and life just happens there they cease to be stories cease to be a comfort but as soon as events ebb the land comes back into view and the stories get rebuilt


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    If the strength and distinctness of this narrative voice were the only way in which the substance and expression of the book mirrored its meaning it would be impressive


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    It is clear however that a manmade structure is necessary to the reader as no individual can ever grasp the whole of reality and remain sane


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    The comfort is also souldestroying and monotonous because the landscape of our perspective of the world ultimately must remain flat and unchanging bound as the landscape of the fens is bound by drainage ditches and the distant horizon

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