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Swimmer

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She swims into the medals and then into oblivion - a sensuous, searing, compact debut from an outstanding new British writer.

This is a striking, supple and direct debut from a new English writer that both promises an exceptionally exciting future and provides an unusual, accomplished and saleable debut. It's a character piece, charting the life of a girl who becomes besotted with butterflies and swimming on the same holiday when an infant, then grows up to become a world-class swimmer before, at 19, obsolescence overtakes her with disorienting haste... If taken on its own terms - as an intense and focused portrait - it is simply staggering; a miniature, but a perfect one. It is stuffed with gorgeously apt and fresh imagery and has tremendous verve about it. It reads, in fact, like a race, as it should.

Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780006551973
  • ISBN-10: 0006551971
  • Publisher: Flamingo
  • Publish Date: October 2000
  • Dimensions: 8 x 5 x 0.36 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.3 pounds
  • Page Count: 144

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