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The Light of Day: A Novel (Vintage International) by Swift, Graham is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Light of Day: A Novel (Vintage International) about?
Graham Swift’s powerful and atmospheric tale of murder, redemption and of the discovery, for better or worse, of the hidden forces inside us.On a cold but dazzling November morning, George Webb, a former policeman turned private detective, prepares to visit Sarah, a prisoner and the woman he loves. As he goes about the business of the day he relives the catastrophic events of two years ago that have both bound them together and kept them apart."Swift is a virtuoso of narrative ventriloquism; he inhabits his characters through their voices. Swift manages this patterning of motives with exquisite economy." - The New York Times Book Review"If the story is conventional, its telling is anything but. Swift consistently uses complex and unconventional narrative strategies to explore his grand themes of the past's encroachment on the present and the link between private stories and public histories. (....) This is beautifully crafted fiction: profound, elliptical in purpose and addressing the big issues with understated elegance." - Liam Davison, Sydney Morning HeraldGraham Swift is the author of eleven novels and two collections of short stories. His work includes the highly acclaimed
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Swift, Graham
- Publisher
- Vintage eBooks
- Published
- 2004
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780307428929
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Mystery, Fiction, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 3.36 / 5 (1,737 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14