Swim to Me: A Novel - Softcover

Carter, Betsy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0385339771 ISBN 13: 9780385339773

Verlag: Bantam Discovery, 2008

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Book by Carter Betsy

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"A warm novel...It's easy to lose yourself in Carter's cozy, generous story, in which second chances abound and change is almost always for the better." --Washington Post

"Poignant and at times rollickingly hilarious."--Miami Herald

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Sometimes to be who you really are, you have
to pretend you’re already who you want to be.

At two, Delores’s mother dropped her into the shallow end of a lake, trusting instinct would teach her daughter to swim. From then on, the water is where Delores Walker feels most at home. Now, nearly seventeen, she’s boarding a Greyhound bus leaving the Bronx for sunny Weeki Wachee Springs, a tacky roadside attraction in the shadow of Walt Disney’s new Florida phenomenon.

With a hundred silver dollars left behind by her runaway dad, Delores is chasing her dream of being a mermaid with a group of other aquatic hopefuls—girls just as awkward and uncertain out of water as they are beautiful and graceful in it. And in this make-believe world of sequined tails and amphibious fantasy, Delores will learn some very real lessons about growing up and surviving in a world where everyone sometimes feels like a fish out of water.

A heartfelt novel of coming-of-age no matter what age you are, populated with characters offbeat, outcast, and thoroughly lovable,Swim to Me is filled with the kind of wise magic that’ll have you believing in the impossible before the final page.

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• Verlag: Bantam Discovery
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0385339771
• ISBN 13: 9780385339773
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336