Last Orders (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Graham Swift
- First Published: 1996
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Parents and children, Marriage, Friendship, England or English people, Drinking or drunkenness, Funeral rites or ceremonies, Life and death, Pilgrims or pilgrimages
- Locales: London, England, Kent, England
At first Graham Swift’s LAST ORDERS seems only a light novel with a plot gimmick and some local color. It begins at a pub in Bermondsey, a section of Southwark Borough in London, when four men gather to carry out the last wishes of their drinking buddy Jack Dodds. Three of the men—Ray Johnson, Lenny Tate, and Vic Tucker—are aging contemporaries of Jack, while Vince Dodds is Jack’s adoptive son. All, as was Jack, are veterans of the military and small shopkeepers in Bermondsey. Their mission on April 2, 1990, is to transport Jack’s ashes to Margate, an aging seaside resort...
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