Typed letter signed : London, to Colin Wiles, 1996 Aug. 28.

Record ID: 
345543
Accession number: 
MA 8422.3
Author: 
Swift, Graham, 1949-
Credit: 
Man Booker Prize Collection. Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund and the Drue Heinz Fund, 2010.
Description: 
1 item (1 p.) ; 29.8 cm
Notes: 

Part of a small collection of letters of Graham Swift.

Summary: 

Thanking him for writing him about Last Orders, saying he is thrilled that the book "struck some personal East Kent chords." Noting also that he was touched by the reference to Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day, and joking that he nearly called his own novel The Day of the Remains.

Provenance: 
Booker Prize collection of Peter Straus.