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<p><P>Four men gather in a London pub. They have taken it upon themselves to carry out the last orders of Jack Dodds, master butcher, and deliver his ashes to the sea. As they drive towards the fulfillment of their mission, their errand becomes an extraordinary journey into their collective and individual pasts. Braiding these men's voices, and that of Jack's widow, into a choir of sorrow and resentment, passion and regret, Swift creates a testament to a changing England and to enduring mortality. <P>"Swift has involved us in real, lived lives...Quietly, but with conviction, he seeks to affirm the values of decency, loyalty, love."—New York Review of Books<P>"A beautiful book...a novel that speaks profoundly of human need and tenderness. Even the most cynical will be warmed by it."—San Francisco Chronicle</p><h3>Publishers Weekly</h3><p>On a bleak spring day, four men meet in their favorite pub in a working-class London neighborhood. They are about to begin a pilgrimage to scatter the ashes of a fifth man, Jack Dodds, friend since WWII of three of them, adoptive father to the fourth. By the time they reach the seaside town where Jack's "last orders" ha
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Graham Swift
- Publisher
- Vintage International; Vintage
- Published
- 1997
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780679308577
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 3.68 / 5 (299 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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