Waterland by Graham Swift


finished 10/24........ 20th century (Booker) ...... rating 8

I'm not quite sure what to think of this book. It was fun, that's for sure, but there's much more to it than a mystery and tragedy. The structure is non-linear, the frame of a professor ending his career and talking back and forth with a favorite student but going back to the stories he telling. The theme is basically how history is what we tell ourselves it is and because truth is stranger than fiction, what we tell ourselves is perhaps a bit mundane compared to the reality. But humans always need to ask why so we invent stories to explain it.

Posted: Fri - October 24, 2008 at 11:27 PM        

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