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Apostolides, Marianne

Swim: A Novel

BookThug, 2009

35,00 €

Kalamos Books

(STREETSVILLE, Canada)

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Anno di pubblicazione
2009
ISBN
1897388381
Luogo di stampa
Toronto
Autore
Apostolides, Marianne
Editori
BookThug
Edizione
1st Can Ed.
Soggetto
GREEK CANADIAN WRITERS
Descrizione
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Signed by Author(s)
Sovracoperta
No
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Brossura
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Prima edizione

Descrizione

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.