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Twelve post-war tales

Here are the soldiers and doctors and veterans, wives and lovers and children, who have been affected in ways both subtle and profound by the cataclysms of our times. In "Blushes," a respiratory disease specialist comes out of retirement to help with COVID patients. In "Passport," an elderly woman f...

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Main Author: Swift, Graham, 1949- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2025.
Edition:First hardcover edition.
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Grief > Fiction.
Veterans > Fiction.
War fiction.
Short stories.
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Summary:Here are the soldiers and doctors and veterans, wives and lovers and children, who have been affected in ways both subtle and profound by the cataclysms of our times. In "Blushes," a respiratory disease specialist comes out of retirement to help with COVID patients. In "Passport," an elderly woman finds herself, in contemplation of her passport, sent back to her three-year-old self, orphaned by World War II. These stories show history in the making, the reverberations across decades of each conflict. Rich with triumph and loss, grief and missed opportunities, moments of grace and contemplatio, Twelve Post-War Tales is a collection of masterpieces in miniature.
Physical Description:289 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:9780593803387
0593803388
Author Notes:GRAHAM SWIFT was born in 1949 and is the author of eleven novels, three collections of short stories, and Making an Elephant, a book of essays, portraits, poetry, and reflections on his life in writing. With Waterland, he won The Guardian Fiction Award, and with Last Orders, the Booker Prize. Mothering Sunday became a worldwide bestseller and won the Hawthornden Prize. His work has appeared in more than thirty-five languages

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