Swimming Home: Shortlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize

Deborah Levy

ISBN 10: 1911508083 / ISBN 13: 9781911508083

Published by And Other Stories, 2017

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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. Num Pages: 166 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. . . 2017. New edition. Paperback. . . . . Seller Inventory # V9781911508083

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Title: Swimming Home: Shortlisted for the 2012 Man ...

Publisher: And Other Stories

Publication Date: 2017

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

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Synopsis:

Selected for the 2012 Man Booker Prize shortlist. 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? Profound and thrilling, Swimming Home reveals how the most devastating secrets are the ones we keep from ourselves.

About the Author:

Deborah Levy is an author, playwright and poet. Her fiction includes two Man Booker Prize shortlisted novels, Swimming Home (2011) and Hot Milk (2016), as well as Black Vodka (2013), shortlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award.