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Swim: A Novel
by Apostolides, Marianne
- Used
- Paperback
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- New Book from Publisher
- ISBN 10
- 1897388381
- ISBN 13
- 9781897388389
- Seller
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STREETSVILLE, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto: BookThug, 2009 Book. New Book from Publisher. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Can Ed.. Attuned to a body in motion, Swim pulls the reader beneath the logic of prose, into the eroticism of language itself. The arcing rhythm of a body breathing, a woman marking her birth as she swims in a pool sustains the unique and hypnotic language that becomes the medium through which this story moves. Swim entwines the present with those past actions and consequences that have brought Kat to the Greek mountain village where her father was born. She swims laps while her fourteen-year-old daughter reclines on a chaise lounge, poolside, reading a book. Without ever leaving the pool we enter discrete scenes with Kats parents, daughter, husband and lover. On entering each point in this history, Kat reveals an undertow of sound, rhythm and words in their rippling meanings. Each new lap moves Kat closer to her impending decision: whether she will leave her husband. But the deeper tension within this innovative novel derives from the writing itself -- its vital urgency that extends the possibilities of narrative beyond the fixed and into the fluid..
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- Bookseller
- KALAMOS BOOKS (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 32653
- Title
- Swim: A Novel
- Author
- Apostolides, Marianne
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- New New Book from Publisher
- Edition
- 1st Can Ed.
- ISBN 10
- 1897388381
- ISBN 13
- 9781897388389
- Publisher
- BookThug
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 2009
- Keywords
- GREEK CANADIAN WRITERS
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KALAMOS BOOKS
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