Wish You Were Here
(eAudiobook)
On an autumn day in 2006, on the Isle of Wight, Jack Luxton, former Devon farmer and now the proprietor of a seaside caravan park, receives the news that his soldier brother, Tom, not seen for years, has been killed in Iraq. For Jack and his wife, Ellie, this will have a potentially catastrophic impact. For Jack in particular it means a crucial journey-to receive his brother's remains, but it is also a journey into his own most secret, troubling memories and into the land of his and Ellie's past. Wish You Were Here is both a gripping account of things that touch and test our human core and a resonant novel about a changing England. Rich with Graham Swift's love of the local and full of humor and tenderness in the face of tragedy, it is also, inescapably, about a wider, afflicted world. Moving toward an almost unbearably tense climax, it allows us to feel the stuff of headlines-the return of a dead soldier from a foreign war-as heart-wrenching personal truth.
Notes
Swift, G., & Lee, J. (2012). Wish You Were Here. Unabridged. [United States], Blackstone Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Swift, Graham and John, Lee. 2012. Wish You Were Here. [United States], Blackstone Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Swift, Graham and John, Lee, Wish You Were Here. [United States], Blackstone Publishing, 2012.
MLA Citation (style guide)Swift, Graham, and John Lee. Wish You Were Here. Unabridged. [United States], Blackstone Publishing, 2012.
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