The Light of Day (Magill’s Literary Annual 2004)
At a glance:
- Author: Graham Swift
- First Published: 2003
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: November 20, 1997
- Setting: London
- Principal Characters: George Webb, Sarah Nash, Robert Nash, Kristina Lazic, Inspector Marsh, Rita
- Genres: Long fiction, Mystery and detective literature, Private investigator fiction
- Subjects: Husbands, Wives, Prisoners, Love or romance, Murder or homicide, Police, Twentieth century, Marriage, England or English people, Adultery, Women, Detectives, Revenge, London, 1990’s, Homemakers, Great Britain
- Locales: London, England
The Light of Day, fifty-four-year-old Graham Swift’s seventh novel, is a conventional, traditional private-eye story told in a modern, unconventional way. Raymond Chandler, who was largely responsible for popularizing the private-eye genre in Britain, would hardly recognize Swift’s novel as a twenty-first century descendant of the Black Mask school of American literature. Swift, who holds a master’s degree from Cambridge University, told an interviewer that he learned in books most of his information about the people and landscape he describes in his writing. His reading...
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