SWIMMING HOME - THE BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLIST 2012 - SIGNED & DATED FIRST EDITION FIRST PRINTING

LEVY Deborah

ISBN 10: 1908276029 / ISBN 13: 9781908276025

Published by And Other Stories, High Wycombe, Bucks, 2012

About this Item

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2012 Deborah Levy's Swimming Home combines linguistic virtuosity and technical brilliance with a strong sense of what it means to be alive. As he arrives with his family at the villa in the hills above Nice, Joe sees a body in the swimming pool. This is a Paperback Original with French Flaps. The Book has been Signed & Dated ( In the Month of Publication, 27.8.12 ) by Deborah Levy to the Title Page. The Book is in As New Condition, no Dust Jacket as issued. There are no inscriptions. The unread book is professionally wrapped and packed with great care with bubble wrap and placed in a special book box to ensure that the book arrives at your destination in perfect condition. Seller Inventory # 002911

Bibliographic Details

Title: SWIMMING HOME - THE BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLIST ...

Publisher: And Other Stories, High Wycombe, Bucks

Publication Date: 2012

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: As New

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

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Synopsis:

Shortlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize
Shortlisted for the 2012 Specsavers National Book Awards (UK Author of the Year)
Shortlisted for the 2013 Jewish Quarterly Wingate Prize

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 wife allow her to remain?

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.

About the Author:

Deborah Levy is a British playwright, novelist and poet. Her novels include the Booker-shortlisted Swimming Home (2011) and Hot Milk (2016), and the Booker-longlisted The Man Who Saw Everything (2019). Deborah is also the author of a collection of short stories, Black Vodka (2013), and a trilogy of prize-winning Living Autobiographies: Things I Don’t Want to Know, The Cost of Living, and Real Estate.