Sentiment replaces phantasmagoria: a review of Graham Swift's tomorrow

In a review of Graham Swift's novel 'Tomorrow', the comparative simplicity of the latter is emphasized: there are no phantasmagorias and grotesques characteristic of the earlier works of the writer, the genre of "stories as tales" is abandoned, and even irony is absent. Something that has always been serious for Swift has survived: the theme of romantically true only love and the theme of finding children. The appeal to a love story in the 60s is reminiscent of other contemporary novels - notably Ian McEwan's 'On Chesil Beach' and Hilary Mantel's 'An Experiment in Love'. Dialogue with both Faulkner and Dickens is also heard. A simple novel, but, especially in comparison with modern Russian literature, what a rest]