Swim (a novel)
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Product Details
Author:
Marianne Apostolides
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
96
Publisher:
Book*hug Press (February 21, 2009)
Language:
English
ISBN-13:
9781897388389
ISBN-10:
1897388381
Dimensions:
5.6" x 8.6" x 0.3"
Case Pack:
80
File:
Eloquence-IPG_08042026_P10436102_onix30_Complete-20260804.xml
Folder:
Eloquence
List Price:
$18.00
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$15.48
Publisher Identifier:
P-IPG
Discount Code:
C
Weight:
12oz
Audience:
General/trade
Pub Discount:
60
Imprint:
Book*hug Press
Overview
Breathe on four. Define your terms. What is this desire?
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 Kat's 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.
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 Kat's 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.
