FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LAST ORDERS AND MOTHERING SUNDAY, and reissued for the first time in Scribner, a brilliant collection of essays, as well as brand new material, that will delight and intrigue readers.
In Making an Elephant, Graham Swift brings together a richly varied selection of essays, portraits, poetry, and reflections on his life in writing. Full of insights into his passions and motivations, and wise about the friends, family, and other writers who have mattered to him over the years, this is a revealing and intimate collection. Kazuo Ishiguro advises on how to choose a guitar, Salman Rushdie arrives for Christmas under guard, and Ted Hughes shares the secrets of a Devon river. There are private moments, too, with long-dead writers, as well as musings on history and memory that readers of Swiftâs novels will recognize and love.
Praise for Mothering Sunday:
'Bathed in light; and even when tragedy strikes, it blazes irresistibly⌠Swiftâs small fiction feels like a masterpieceâ Guardian
âAlive with sensuousness and sensuality ⌠wonderfully accomplished, it is an achievementâ Sunday Times
âFrom start to finish Swiftâs is a novel of stylish brilliance and quiet narrative verve. The archly modulated, precise prose (a hybrid of Henry Green and Kazuo Ishiguro) is a glory to read. Now 66, Swift is a writer at the very top of his gameâ Evening Standard
âMothering Sunday is a powerful, philosophical and exquisitely observed novel about the lives we lead, and the parallel lives â the parallel stories â we can never know ⌠It may just be Swiftâs best novel yetâ Observer