Last Orders Last Orders

Last Orders

    • 4.1 • 7 Ratings
    • £5.99

Publisher Description

WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 1996

Four men once close to Jack Dodds, a London butcher, meet to carry out his peculiar last wish: to have his ashes scattered into the sea at Margate. For reasons best known to herself, Jack’s widow, Amy, declines to join them . . . On the surface a simple tale of an increasingly bizarre day’s outing, this Booker-prize winning, internationally acclaimed novel is a resonant and classic exploration of the complexity and courage of ordinary lives. Intensely local but overwhelmingly universal, faithful to the fleeting rhythms and accidental eloquence of everyday speech but also to the timeless truths of life and death, it succeeds in being comic and heartstopping, affectionate and wise, and in conferring on its stumbling, disappointed characters an enduring decency, dignity and depth.
 
‘A surpassing testament to Swift’s vibrant and powerful gifts’ The Times
‘A triumph . . . a story about the most fundamental things of all’ Evening Standard

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2019
11 July
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
320
Pages
PUBLISHER
Scribner UK
SIZE
4.2
MB
Cut Flowers Cut Flowers
2011
Titanium Noir Titanium Noir
2023
Ann Devine, Ready for Her Close-Up Ann Devine, Ready for Her Close-Up
2019
The Destroyers The Destroyers
2017
Be Mine Be Mine
2023
This Champagne Mojito is the Last Thing I Own This Champagne Mojito is the Last Thing I Own
2008
Mothering Sunday Mothering Sunday
2016
Here We Are Here We Are
2020
The Light of Day The Light of Day
2018
Waterland Waterland
2019
Wish You Were Here Wish You Were Here
2017
England and Other Stories England and Other Stories
2014
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
2010
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
2012
Travels With My Aunt Travels With My Aunt
2010
The Bell (Vintage Classics Murdoch Series) The Bell (Vintage Classics Murdoch Series)
2009
The Power and the Glory The Power and the Glory
2010
Offshore Offshore
2013