Swimming Home by Deborah Levy
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize
"Readers will have to resist the temptation to hurry up in order to find out what happens . . . Our reward is the enjoyable, if unsettling, experience of being pitched into the deep waters of Levy's wry, accomplished novel." - Francine Prose, The New York Times Book Review
As he arrives with his family at the villa in the hills above Nice, France, 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.
Before becoming a playwright, Deborah Levy studied at Dartington College of Arts. Pax, Heresies, Clam, Call Blue Jane, Shiny Nylon, Honey Baby Middle England, Pushing the Prince into Denmark, and Macbeth-False Memories are just a few of the plays she's written. She has also authored novels and was a Trinity College, Cambridge, Fellow in Creative Arts from 1989 to 1991.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781620401699 |
| ISBN 10 | 162040169X |
| Title | Swimming Home |
| Author | Deborah Levy |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury USA |
| Year published | 2012-10-16 |
| Number of pages | 176 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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