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Swimming Lessons

A Novel

by Lynne Hugo ; Anna Tuttle Villegas

ISBN: 068815977X
ISBN-13: 9780688159771
Format: Hardcover

Summary

Two women become friends when Marna teaches Laurel to swim and helps her get over her terror of water-and to face the traumatic experience that led to it.

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Bibliographic Details

Publisher: Harpercollins
Published date: 1998
Size: 6.25 x 8.75 inches
Weight: 1.05 pounds
Pages: 268

Publisher's Notes

Laurel is terrified of water; Mama is a former swimming champion who abandoned her Olympic aspirations for the safety of marriage. When Laurel must learn to swim, she convinces Mama to give her lessons, tentatively beginning an extraordinary friendship. The two slowly reveal the secrets of their lives: Laurel cannot seem to tell her boyfriend about her phobia of water, or the tragedy that triggered it; Mama in turn shares her fears of having children, a powerful unease that has kept her using birth control as her unsuspecting, frustrated husband stews and their thirteen-year marriage slowly dissolves. Just as Laurel and Mama are discovering the trust and ease that characterize the best of womens friendships, however, an intimate revelation turns their lives to chaos and threatens to shatter their bond. The story behind the story of Swimming Lessons is one of women's friendship as well: The authors, who have never met, became telephone friends trading writing ideas until a collaboration grew over numerous fax exchanges and phone calls and Swimming Lessons was born.

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