Swimming Home
A Novel
by Deborah Levy
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Pub Date Oct 16 2012 | Archive Date Sep 01 2012
Bloomsbury | Bloomsbury USA
Description
Selected for the 2012 Man Booker Prize short list. "Levy manipulates light and shadow with artfulness. She transfixes the reader: we recognize...the thing of darkness in us all. This is an intelligent, pulsating literary beast." --The Telegraph (UK)
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 enigmatic wife allow her to remain?
A subversively brilliant study of love, Swimming Home reveals how the most devastating secrets are the ones we keep from ourselves.
Advance Praise
“Levy is a keenly attentive writer, alive to the hyperreal nature of things, her prose achieving a hallucinatory quality as things seem to float out of the characters’ minds and into the text … Levy manipulates light and shadow with artfulness. She transfixes the reader: we recognize…the thing of darkness in us all. This is an intelligent, pulsating literary beast.” —Telegraph
“Allusive, elliptical and disturbing … often funny and always acute … Swimming Home reminded me of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway. Although a short work, it has an epic quality. This is a prizewinner.”—The Independent
“Witty and poignant.”—Sunday Times
“A statement on the power of the unsaid … Levy’s cinematic clarity and momentum … convey confusion with remarkable lucidity.”—Times Literary Supplement
“One of the finest new novels I have read (and already reread) in a long time … it radiates the sensual languor of sun-drenched afternoons in the south of France and the disquieting, uncanny beauty only perceived by a true daytime insomniac.”—The Guardian
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781620401699 |
| PRICE | $16.00 (USD) |
| PAGES | 176 |
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