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Jan 1, 1995 · Swan Boats at Four is perhaps the greatest tour-de-force of unreliable narration I've ever seen, and now that Higgins is no longer with us, most of us won't live to see it surpassed: none of its four central chracters are to be believed, but boy do they talk, at length and rewardingly, in the best and most entertaining Higginsese.
Jan 1, 1995 · Swan Boats at Four: A Novel. George V. Higgins. 2.81. 21 ratings6 reviews. Aboard a deluxe ocean liner, a middle-aged couple with financial and marital problems are pigeonholed by a charming confidence man with a mission, and the three exchange revealing stories about their lives. 25,000 first printing. $20,000 first printing. Genres Fiction.
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Jun 16, 2011 · Swan boats at four : a novel. by. Higgins, George V., 1939-. Publication date. 1995. Publisher. New York : Henry Colt. Collection. inlibrary; printdisabled; internetarchivebooks.
Racked with anxiety over the federal examiners baying at his recession-ridden Pilot Hill Bank and Trust, David Carroll allows his wife Frances to sweep him off for a week in London and on the recommissioned America's ``re-maiden voyage,'' as America staffer (and David's former mistress) Melissa Murray describes it.
Swan Boats at Four George V. Higgins. Henry Holt & Company, $23 (228pp) ISBN 978-0-8050-3077-8
SWAN BOATS AT FOUR User Review - Kirkus. Taking a holiday from his usual diet of lowlife Boston cops and crooks (Bomber's Law, 1993, etc.), Higgins books passage on the luxury liner...
