{"product_id":"swimming-home-9781620401699","title":"Swimming Home","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"First published in Great Britain by And Other Stories in 2011\"--T.p. verso.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the Man Booker Prize \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Readers will have to resist the temptation to hurry up in order to find out what happens . . . Our reward is the enjoyable, if unsettling, experience of being pitched into the deep waters of Levy's wry, accomplished novel.\" - Francine Prose, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs he arrives with his family at the villa in the hills above Nice, France, 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 enigmatic wife allow her to remain? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA subversively brilliant study of love, \u003ci\u003eSwimming Home\u003c\/i\u003e reveals how the most devastating secrets are the ones we keep from ourselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eDetails\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN13: 9781620401699\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNumber of Pages: 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEdition: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication Date: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublisher: Bloomsbury USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication City, Country: United Kingdom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDimensions (cm): 20.8(H)x14(L)x1.5(W)181\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWeight (gm): 181\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cb\u003eDeborah Levy\u003c\/b\u003e, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, writes fiction, plays, and poetry. Her work has been staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company, widely broadcast on the BBC, and translated into fourteen languages. Her works include the novels\u003ci\u003e Hot Milk\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSwimming Home \u003c\/i\u003e(both Man Booker Prize finalists), \u003ci\u003eThe Unloved\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBilly and Girl\u003c\/i\u003e; the story collection \u003ci\u003eBlack Vodka\u003c\/i\u003e; and the non-fiction Living Autobiography Trilogy: \u003ci\u003eThings I Don't Want to Know\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCost of Living\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eReal Estate\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in London.\u003ch4\u003eReviews\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eSwimming Home\u003c\/i\u003e is unlike anything but itself . . . . Readers will have to resist the temptation to hurry up in order to find out what happens . . . Our reward is the enjoyable, if unsettling, experience of being pitched into the deep waters of Levy's wry, accomplished novel.\" --Francine Prose, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Elegant . . . subtle . . . uncanny . . . The seductive pleasure of Levy's prose stems from its layered brilliance . . . [\u003ci\u003eSwimming Home\u003c\/i\u003e is] witty right up until it's unbearably sad.\" --Ron Charles, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Here is an excellent story, told with the subtlety and menacing tension of a veteran playwright.\" --Sam Sacks, \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Exquisite . . . Levy's sense of dramatic form, as she hastens us toward the grim finale, is unerring, and her precise, dispassionate prose effortlessly summons people and landscapes.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Ms. Levy is a stealthy storyteller, lulling us while busy scattering clues.\" --Susannah Meadows, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Wholly new, fresh and, yes, profound . . . [\u003ci\u003eSwimming Home\u003c\/i\u003e] floats like a wasp, and stings like one too.\" --Tucker Shaw, \u003ci\u003eThe Denver Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deborah Levy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48752457089241,"sku":"9781620401699","price":29.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0502\/9530\/8441\/files\/91YS6-yyiAL._SL1500_5a9ced27-4d64-49c5-a453-fc79131069c0.jpg?v=1779889889","url":"https:\/\/www.arielbooks.com.au\/products\/swimming-home-9781620401699","provider":"Ariel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}