In November 2022 Graham Swift’s short story “Hinges” was published in the

. Best known for the Booker-prize-winner

(1996) and the ever popular

(1983), Swift is less recognised for short fiction. In a critically acclaimed writing career which spans over four decades and was launched through short stories in the late 1970s, Swift has published two short-fiction collections. Over thirty years separate the publication of these two volumes:

in 1982,

in 2014.

Most of the eleven stories in Learning to Swim and Other Stories had already been published in various literary periodicals and anthologies of new writing before Swift’s first novel, The Sweet-Shop Owner (1980), appeared. “In those days I

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Citation: Logotheti, Anastasia. ""Hinges"". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 31 January 2023 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=41122, accessed 17 May 2024.]

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