Swimming Home: Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012 - Softcover

Levy, Deborah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1908276029 ISBN 13: 9781908276025

Verlag: And Other Stories, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

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. Deborah Levy's writing combines linguistic virtuosity, technical brilliance and a strong sense of what it means to be alive. "Swimming Home" represents a new direction for a major writer. In this book, the wildness and the danger are all the more powerful for resting just beneath the surface. With its deep psychology, biting humour and deceptively light surface, it wears its darkness lightly.

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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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: And Other Stories
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1908276029
• ISBN 13: 9781908276025
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 157
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