Last Orders

Last Round ( Last Orders ) is an award -winning novel by British author Graham Swift. In 1996 he was awarded the Booker Prize.

Protagonists are three old men, Roy, Vic and Lenny who go to the sea to her late friend, Jack, to fulfill his last wish to scatter his ashes on the beach in Margate into the sea. Here, the plot line is repeatedly interrupted by flashbacks, in which the three men and Vince, the adopted son Jack, tell in the first person scenes from the life.

1997, there was plagiarism accusations regarding this narrative. The Anglist John Frow accused Swift to copy when I was dying in the last round of structure and action of William Faulkner's novel, without pointing out. A few weeks later, these allegations were picked up on the front page of the Independent on Sunday again, which triggered a long debate in several newspapers. Well-known authors such as Salman Rushdie and Julian Barnes took Swift against the allegations in protection and argued that it was clear at last round to pay homage to Faulkner.

Praise was how the author manages to bring small stories of everyday life, desires, hopes and failed relationships to light, always associated with a touch of humor that takes some quirky and slightly macabre trains.

The novel was made ​​into a film in 2001, directed by Fred Schepisi with Michael Caine, Tom Courtenay, Emma Deigman, David Hemmings, Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren and Ray Winstone.