Waterland is a 1983 novel by Graham Swift. It is considered to be the author's premier novel and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize (a prize Swift finally achieved with Last Orders).
Adaptations (1)
Waterland was adapted into a 1992 film.
Waterland1992 · film · 95 min · dir. Stephen Gyllenhaal · IMDb ↗IMDb6.547%The story of a mentally anguished high school history teacher going through a complete reassessment of his life. His method for reassessing his life is to narrate it to his class and interweave in it three generations of his family's history.
