The light of day / Graham Swift.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Swift, Graham, 1949-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Private investigators--Fiction.

Private investigators.

Women prisoners--Fiction.

Women prisoners.

Man-woman relationships--Fiction.

Man-woman relationships.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

323 pages ; 20 cm

Edition:

First American edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.

Summary:

The new novel from one of today's most important English writers -- his first since the Booker Prize-winning Last Orders -- is the work of a master storyteller, a luminous and gripping tale of love, murder, and redemption.

George Webb is a divorced ex-policeman turned private investigator, a man whose prospects seemed ruined not so long ago. Following the course of a single, dazzling day in his life, the novel illuminates not only his past but his now all-consuming relationship with a former client. Written with superb delicacy of touch, intimate and intricate in its evocation of daily existence, The Light of Day achieves an extraordinary intensity and almost unbearable suspense. Tender and humorous in its characterizations and its depiction of life's surface, it yet explores the depths and extremities of what lies within us and how, for better or worse, it is never too late to discover what they are.

Notes:

"Originally published in Great Britain by Hamish Hamilton, London"--T.p. verso.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0375415491

OCLC:

52127158