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Swimmer (Paperback)
$9.94 - Save $1.10 (9%) - RRP $11.04 Free delivery worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for SwimmerShe swims into the medals and then into oblivion -- a sensuous, searing, compact debut from an outstanding new British writer.
Full description- Publisher: Flamingo
- Published: 16 October 2000
- Format: Paperback 144 pages
- See: Full bibliographic data
- Categories: Contemporary Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9780006551973 ISBN 10: 0006551971
- Sales rank: 732,799
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Full description for Swimmer
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.
