Graham Swift
TOMORROW
Graham Swift lives in London and is the author of seven previous novels: The Sweet-Shop Owner; Shuttlecock, which received the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize; Waterland, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Guardian Fiction Award, the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize, and the Italian Premio Grinzane Cavour; Out of This World; Ever After, which won the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger; Last Orders, which was awarded the Booker Prize; and, most recently, The Light of Day. He is also the author of Learning to Swim, a collection of short stories. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages.
ALSO BY GRAHAM SWIFT
The Light of Day
Last Orders
Ever After
Out of This World
Waterland
Learning to Swim
Shuttlecock
The Sweet-Shop Owner
Acclaim for Graham Swift’s
TOMORROW
“A writer of great range, vigor and acuity.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“Emotionally piercing.”
—The Boston Globe
“A continually interesting writer. The secret lies in his story-teller’s gift of tongues, his flair for creating voices that seem to be talking directly, intimately in your ear.”
—The New York Review of Books
“A compelling meditation on family relations.”
—The Washington Post
“Seeks out the extraordinary in ordinary events.”
—Los Angeles Times
“Swift has proved himself a masterly ventriloquist…. Evocative.”
—The New York Times
“Builds toward the emotional truths of everyday life…. Deftly written.”
—Courier-Journal (Louisville)
“Reminiscent of Harold Pinter’s brilliant Betrayal.”
“Will keep you guessing…. The urgent question for the reader is not what will happen next but what has happened in the first place.”
—The Guardian (London)
“An elegant exploration of the fragility of love and the bonds that hold families together.”
—Bookreporter
“Swift once again gives us a book full of characters to care about, and worry for.”
—PopMatters
“Very good indeed…. [Swift] is a writer of easy subtlety, who specializes in the sidelong illumination of ordinary details.”
—The Independent (London)
FIRST VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL EDITION, SEPTEMBER 2008
Copyright © 2007 by Graham Swift
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Originally published in Great Britain by Picador, an imprint of Pan Macmillan Ltd., London, and subsequently published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 2007.
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
The Library of Congress has cataloged the Knopf edition as follows:
Swift, Graham.
Tomorrow / by Graham Swift. —1st American ed.
p. cm.
1. Family secrets—Fiction. 2. Twins—Fiction. I. Title.
PR6069.W47T66 2007
823’.914—dc22
2007018684
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eISBN: 978-0-307-47275-5
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