# Last orders

**Author(s):** Graham Swift
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**Genres:** literary-fiction, romance
**Pages:** 299
**Publisher:** Highbridge Audio
**Published:** Mon Jan 01 1996 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9781565117655
**ISBN-10:** 0679308571
**ASIN:** B00957T5XM
**Amazon categories:** Literature & Fiction > Genre Fiction
**Amazon binding:** $10.99
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/last-orders

## Description

Graham Swift's first novel since the highly acclaimed Ever After is a subtle yet deeply felt exploration of the ways in which friendship and love are shaped by the past and by fate.

At its center is a group of men, friends since the Second World War, whose lives revolve around work, family, the racetrack, and their favorite pub. Now, the death of one of them, and the survivors' task of driving their friend's ashes from London to the seaside town where they'll be scattered, compels them to take stock.

Through conversation and memory they trace the paths they have followed by choice and by accident: through war and its aftermath, through the dramas of their family lives and of their shifting relationships with one another. In brilliantly realized, richly humorous voices, Swift has created a narrative language that perfectly expresses not only the comforts of old habits and friendships but the profound emotional revelations this brief but far-reaching journey will bring them.

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**Themes:** War, Friendship