Ten stories, billy and girl, the unloved, beautiful mutants, an amorous discourse in the suburbs of hell. This book is brand new international softcover edition delivered within 712 working days via upsuspsdhl and fedex. In this book, the wildness and the danger are all the more powerful for resting just beneath the surface. When it comes to language, levy has an eye for the aesthetic. Philip womack is gripped by deborah levy s swimming home, shortlisted for the 2012 man booker prize, an original take on the middleclass villa holiday novel.
Deborah levy frsl born 6 august 1959 is a british novelist, playwright and poet. Add to this a writing style that is dreamy and trancelike, and swimming home feels a bit like that warped picture you get when you open your eyes underwater and look up at the world. Read swimming home online, read in mobile or kindle. Swimming home represents a new direction for a major writer. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Instead of being transported to nice, i was constantly analyzing the character development, word choice, and turn of phrase. Abigail deutsch, tls deborah levy has made something strange and new spiky and unsettling.
Born in 1959 in south africa, deborah levy has been based in the uk. For those readers who havent read the books, swimming home is set in the summer of 1994 in southern france. It was the first deborah levy book i ever read and still remains my favourite of hers. The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 165 pages and is available in paperback format. A conversation with deborah levy wiley online library. Swimming home is a subversive pageturner, a merciless gaze at t. This extract is from deborah levys novel swimming home, published by and. The pervading scent of menace in this novel is overpowering and disquieting. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Pdf swimming home book by deborah levy free download. Swimming home by deborah levy and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. From the first brief chapters of deborah levys spare, disturbing and frequently funny novel.
Its july 1994 and joe jacobs has arrived in france with his family. Swimming home is an excellent book, and i am thankful the booker judges brought it to my attention. Download read swimming home 2011 by deborah levy in. Swimming home spins a richly plotted, darkly humorous, and disturbing tale of psychological unraveling reading deborah levy s swimming home is as unsettling as skating across a thinly frozen pond. Swimming home is a novel by british writer deborah levy, published on 10 september 2012. The audacious and elegiac second installment in her living autobiography on writing and womanhood, from the twiceman booker prizeshortlisted author of hot milk and swimming home following the acclaimed things i dont want to know, deborah levy returns to the subject of her life in letters. Profound and thrilling, swimming home reveals how the most devastating secrets are. They take a look around to find a body in the swimming pool. Taking place over a single week, swimming home reveals how a group of beautiful, flawed tourists in the french riviera come loose at the seams. Swimming home by deborah levy, first edition abebooks.
Download swimming home ebook free in pdf and epub format. Swimming home quotes showing 126 of 26 she was not a poet. Critical reception for the novel was generally favourable. Deborah levy books author download ebooks pdf, mobi, epub. Yet, for me, everyone was in a bad position, i was uncomfortable with how confused and mentally challenged. Naomi benaron, whose bellwether prize winning first novel, running the rift, is set during the rwandan genocide, chats with deborah levy about her latest novel, swimming home. A working autobiography, the man who saw everything, things i dont want to know, black vodka. I could definitely appreciate that parts of it were beautifully written and the premise, that two couples rent a villa in france and decide to take in a stranger who happens to be in the pool upon their arrival, interesting. Unfortunately instead of swimming home, this reader felt like she was swimming in. Like as much as i try to make the past keep still and mind its manners, it moves and murmurs with me through every day. Swimming home by deborah levy, first edition abebooks passion for books. The first edition of the novel was published in october 6th 2011, and was written by deborah levy. A poet, his wife, her daughter and their friends arrive at the french riviera. Our reward is the enjoyable, if unsettling, experience of being pitched into the deep waters of levy s wry, accomplished novel.
As he arrives with his family at the villa in the hills above nice, joe sees a body in the swimming pool. Sunday times deborah levy has made something strange and new. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading swimming home. Swimming home by levy, deborah and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Deborah levy s writing combines linguistic virtuosity, technical brilliance and a strong sense of what it means to be alive.
Nina could see from where she was standing that it was a woman swimming. First, i would like to congratulate you on all your honors for swimming home. None is prepared for the sight of a woman is it a bear. Download pdf swimming home free online new books in. Precise, concise, decisive sentences trap the reader.
Swimming home by deborah levy goodreads share book. Swimming home is a subversive pageturner, a merciless gaze at the insidiuos harm that depression can have on. You know you will fall through, tumbling into the deep, murky waters below the storys surface, but you are never sure exactly when or how. Both profound and thrilling, deborah levy explores what it means to be alive and how the most devastating secrets are the ones we keep from ourselves. Not only is the novel an exploration of a seemingly failing marriage. Soon after, her early novels were reissued by penguin books. One day a woman, kitty finch, emerges naked from the swimming pool and becomes the force field shaping the couples actions and those of the few secondary. Swimming home by deborah levy make literary productions. Her more recent fiction has included the bookershortlisted novels swimming. She initially concentrated on writing for the theatre her plays were staged by the royal shakespeare company before focusing on prose fiction. In this novel, home is elusive, safety is unlikely, and the reader closes the book both satisfied and unnerved.
Ultimately i found this book to be overly depressing. The book is strikingly imagistic, and we were all agreed that it created rich pictures in the mind of the reader, but in her introduction clare said that she felt at too much of a distance from the. Witty and poignant, its pages melt away like an unsettling yet familiar dream. Swimming home, her first novel for over a decade, has prompted an. The main characters of this fiction, literary fiction story are. But i am not sure that any of these quite capture deborah levy s imagination or explain swimming home, which at one point she sums up to me, perfectly, as. The short novel deals with the experiences of poet joe jacobs, when his family vacation is interrupted by a fanatical reader. The short novel deals with the experiences of poet joe jacobs. If it had been a strategic move by deborah levy to publish the novel in this way, she was rewarded beyond measure. In swimming home, home is elusive, safety is unlikely, and the reader closes the book both satisfied and unnerved. Buy swimming home by deborah levy online at alibris. Free download or read online swimming home pdf epub book.
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