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Swimming Home
Contributor(s): Levy, Deborah (Author)
ISBN: 162040169X     ISBN-13: 9781620401699
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
OUR PRICE:   $14.40  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: October 2012
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Family Life - General
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2012037285
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.5" W x 8.2" (0.40 lbs) 176 pages
 
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Selected for the 2012 Man Booker Prize short list. Levy manipulates light and shadow with artfulness. She transfixes the reader: we recognize...the thing of darkness in us all. This is an intelligent, pulsating literary beast. --The Telegraph (UK)
As he arrives with his family at the villa in the hills above Nice, Joe sees a body in the swimming pool. But the girl is very much alive. She is Kitty Finch: a self-proclaimed botanist with green-painted fingernails, walking naked out of the water and into the heart of their holiday. Why is she there? What does she want from them all? And why does Joe's enigmatic wife allow her to remain?
A subversively brilliant study of love, Swimming Home reveals how the most devastating secrets are the ones we keep from ourselves.

Contributor Bio(s): Levy, Deborah: - Deborah Levy trained at Dartington College of Arts before becoming a playwright. Her plays include Pax, Heresies, Clam, Call Blue Jane, Shiny Nylon, Honey Baby Middle England, Pushing the Prince into Denmark and Macbeth-False Memories. She has also written some novels and was a Fellow in Creative Arts at Trinity College, Cambridge from 1989-1991.