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Livres anciens et modernes

Apostolides, Marianne

Swim: A Novel

BookThug, 2009

35,00 €

Kalamos Books

(STREETSVILLE, Canada)

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Détails

Année
2009
ISBN
1897388381
Lieu d'édition
Toronto
Auteur
Apostolides, Marianne
Éditeurs
BookThug
Edition
1st Can Ed.
Thème
GREEK CANADIAN WRITERS
Description
S
Description
Signed by Author(s)
Jaquette
Non
Reliure
Couverture souple
Dédicacée
Oui
Premiére Edition
Oui

Description

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.