TY - BOOK AU - Swift,Graham TI - Making an elephant : : writing from within SN - 9780330451024 U1 - 828.91408 PY - 2010/// CY - London PB - Picador KW - Swift, Graham, KW - Authors, English KW - 20th century KW - Biography. N1 - Introduction -- Santa's Clinic: Croydon, 1955 -- Isaac Babel: Greece, 1967 -- Greece Again: 1974 -- Negronis with Alan: Kensington, 1976 -- Guidhall Farce: 1983 -- Talking to Patrick: New York and London, 1984-86 -- Buying a Guitar with Ish: Nagasaki, 1954-60 -- In the Bamboo Club with Caz: Toronto, 1986 -- Looking for Jiff Wolf: Prague, 1989 -- Filming the Fens: Norfolk and Twikenham, 1991 -- Making an Elephant: Sydenham, 1922-92 -- Santa Again: Christmas with Mr. Brown, 1989-99 -- Reading Aloud: Cheltenham and Everywhere, 1991 -- I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside: Nice, 1997 -- Fishing with Ted: Devon, 1998 -- Filming Again with Fred: Canterbury Cathedral, 2000 -- Local History and an Interview: Wandsworth, 1851-2005 -- Michel de Montaigner: Perigord, 1533-92 -- Acknowledgement -- List of Illustrations; 800-899; 828 N2 - Graham Swift brings together a richly varied selection of essays, portraits, poetry, and reflections on his life in writing, full of insights into his passions and motivations and wise about the friends, family and other writers who habe mattered to him over the years ER -