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Literary Fiction · MelancholicFour old friends drive to the sea to scatter a butcher's ashes
Last Orders
by Graham Swift
1996304 pagesModerate readSteady pace
★ Booker Prize, 1996
A drive to scatter a friend's ashes
Jack Dodds, a butcher from Bermondsey, has died, and four men make a day's trip to the coast to carry out his last wish. In turn each of them tells his version of Jack's life and of their own friendships. It won the 1996 Booker Prize and was adapted as a 2001 film by Fred Schepisi.
More about this book
Who
Ray, Lenny, Vic and Vince, friends and son of Jack Dodds.
World
South London and the road to Margate.
What makes it different
The story is told by several narrators in turn.
Feel
Warm and sad.
Page count and cover shown for: Selected edition
Further reading
- Last OrdersWikipedia