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She swims into the medals and then into oblivion – a sensuous, searing, compact debut from an outstanding new British writer.

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Swimmer by Bill Broady

She swims into the medals and then into oblivion – a sensuous, searing, compact debut from an outstanding new British writer. This is a striking, supple and direct debut from a new English writer that both promises an exceptionally exciting future and provides an unusual, accomplished and saleable debut. It’s a character piece, charting the life of a girl who becomes besotted with butterflies and swimming on the same holiday when an infant, then grows up to become a world-class swimmer before, at 19, obsolescence overtakes her with disorienting haste… If taken on its own terms – as an intense and focused portrait – it is simply staggering; a miniature, but a perfect one. It is stuffed with gorgeously apt and fresh imagery and has tremendous verve about it. It reads, in fact, like a race, as it should.

bill broady lives and works in Yorkshire. This astonishing debut is the fruit of Littlewoods’ largesse. He has also written and published some poetry and short stories in, amongst others, The London Magazine, Poetry Now, Sofa, Printer’s Devil, The Big Issue, Artscene and The Dalesman.

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ISBN 13 9780006551973
ISBN 10 0006551971
Title Swimmer
Author Bill Broady
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Binding type Paperback
Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
Year published 2000-10-16
Number of pages 144
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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