Swimming Home - Couverture souple

Levy, Deborah

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1908276029 ISBN 13 : 9781908276025

Editeur : And Other Stories, 2011

Synopsis

Shortlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize
Shortlisted for the 2012 Specsavers National Book Awards (UK Author of the Year)
Shortlisted for the 2013 Jewish Quarterly Wingate Prize

As he arrives with his family at the villa in the hills above Nice, Joe sees a body in the swimming pool. But the girl is very much alive. She is Kitty Finch: a self-proclaimed botanist with green-painted fingernails, walking naked out of the water and into the heart of their holiday. Why is she there? What does she want from them all? And why does Joe’s wife allow her to remain?

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: And Other Stories
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1908276029
• ISBN 13: 9781908276025
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 165
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