2012 MAN BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED. Swimming Home is a subversive page-turner, a merciless gaze at the insidious harm that depression can have on apparently stable, well-turned-out people. Set in a summer villa, the story is tautly structured, taking place over a single week in which a group of beautiful, flawed tourists in the French Riviera come loose at the seams. Deborah Levy's writing combines linguistic virtuosity, technical brilliance and a strong sense of what it means to be alive. Swimming Home represents a new direction for a major writer. In this book, the wildness and the danger are all the more powerful for resting just beneath the surface. With its deep psychology, biting humour and deceptively light surface, it wears its darkness lightly.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
AND & Other Stories
ISBN-13
9781908276025
eBay Product ID (ePID)
109172782
Product Key Features
Book Title
Swimming Home
Author
Deborah Levy
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Books
Publication Year
2011
Number of Pages
176 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
198mm
Item Width
129mm
Item Weight
249g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Deborah Levy
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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