Swimming in the Sink by Lynne Cox

Swimming in the Sink by Lynne Cox

From inspired and inspiring open-water swimmer and supreme athlete, able to endure cold water temperatures that would kill others, author of Swimming to Antarctica (Riveting --Sports Illustrated) and Grayson (Moving, mystical --People)--a powerful book about super athleticism and human frailty, about invincibility and the sudden (mind-altering) repercussions of illness, and about the triumph of spirit, surrender, and love.

Lynne Cox is an elite athlete who broke many world records, among them swimming the English Channel at fifteen, being the first woman to swim across Cook Strait (eighteen miles), and being the first to swim off Antarctica in 32-degree water--for twenty-five minutes --all without a wetsuit.

And that's where Swimming in the Sink begins--at a laboratory at the University of London, with Cox's hand in ice-cold water, hooked up to thermocouples and probes, with three scientists trying to make sense of her extraordinary human capabilities. The test results paved the way for new medical and life-saving practices.

As an athlete, Cox had put her heart into everything she'd ever accomplished. In turn her heart gave her great physical strength and endurance.

In the midst of becoming the embodiment of a supreme endurance athlete, Cox took care of her elderly parents, both of whom passed away in quick succession, followed by the death of her beloved Labrador retriever, leaving Lynne in shock from loss and loneliness and soon literally suffering from the debilitating effects of a broken heart.

On the edge of a precipice, Cox was diagnosed with atrial fibrillation (AFib). As the prognosis went from bad to worse, Cox was in fear of living out a lesser life as an invalid with a pacemaker and a defibrillator and the real possibility of her own death was before her. Cox writes of her full surrender to her increasing physical frailty, to her illness, her treatment, her slow pull toward recovery.

In Swimming in the Sink we see Cox finding her way, writing about her transformative journey back toward health, and slowly moving toward the one aspect of her life that meant everything to her--freedom; mastery; transcendence--back to open waters, and the surprise that she never saw coming: falling in love.

LYNNE COX grew raised in Los Alamitos, California, and was born in Boston, Massachusetts. She has held open-water swimming records all over the world, and she does so without the use of a wetsuit. The International Swimming Hall of Fame has inducted Cox. Her work has appeared in a variety of magazines, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times Magazine, to name a few. Cox resides in the city of Long Beach, California. Lynne Cox's website is www.lynnecox.org.

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ISBN 13	9781101947623
ISBN 10	1101947624
Title	Swimming in the Sink
Author	Lynne Cox
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Knopf Publishing Group
Year published	2016-09-06
Number of pages	240
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