Graham Swift on Granta.com
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Issue 69
Our Nicky’s Heart
Graham Swift
‘Frank Randall had three sons: Michael, Eddy and Mark. That was fine by him‘.
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Making an Elephant
Graham Swift
‘The death of a father is, in most cases, an inevitable passage of life.’
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Fishing, Writing and Ted: An Appreciation
Graham Swift
‘Sometimes it haunts you like a knell, sometimes it's the motto for unimagined privilege.’
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The Butcher of Bermondsey
Graham Swift
‘Then he led me out into the noise and the glare and the stink.’
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Plastic
Graham Swift
‘Sorting out the world! He should have sorted out himself and his own jeopardized household.’
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Looking for Jiří Wolf
Graham Swift
‘The fact remains that when I did ask questions, I got the same response: genuine, not stimulated, ignorance. No one seemed to have heard of him.’
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A Short History of Coronation Ale
Graham Swift
‘Rest assured, it was no ordinary ale that they drank by the Ouse while in Westminster crowds thronged.’
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About the Eel
Graham Swift
‘We have not yet come to the most remarkable episode in this quasi-mythological quest for the genesis of the eel.’
