Swimming Home
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012
(Sprache: Englisch)
Swimming Home is a subversive page-turner, a merciless gaze at the insidious harm that depression can have on apparently stable, well-turned-out people. Set in a summer villa, the story is tautly structured, taking place over a single week in which a group...
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Swimming Home is a subversive page-turner, a merciless gaze at the insidious harm that depression can have on apparently stable, well-turned-out people. Set in a summer villa, the story is tautly structured, taking place over a single week in which a group of beautiful, flawed tourists in the French Riviera come loose at the seams. Deborah Levy's writing combines linguistic virtuosity, technical brilliance and a strong sense of what it means to be alive. "Swimming Home" represents a new direction for a major writer. In this book, the wildness and the danger are all the more powerful for resting just beneath the surface. With its deep psychology, biting humour and deceptively light surface, it wears its darkness lightly.
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A taut, cinematic novel from an acclaimed author. Joe arrives at his family villa in Nice to find a naked girl in the swimming pool, a self-proclaimed botanist who changes his life. With an introduction by Tom McCarthy, it will be supported by a major reviews and media coverage. 'Levy's strength is her originality of thought and expression.' Jeanette WintersonAutoren-Porträt von Deborah Levy
Tom McCarthy, geboren 1969, lebt als Künstler, Schriftsteller und Literaturkritiker in London. Er ist Generalsekretär der International Necronautical Society und hat zahlreiche Erzählungen und Essays veröffentlicht. Deborah Levy, 1959 in Südafrika geboren, lebt als Autorin in London. Nach einigen Prosaarbeiten schrieb sie vor allem Drehbücher und Theaterstücke, die unter anderem von der Royal Shakespeare Company aufgeführt wurden.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Deborah Levy
- 2012, Repr., 157 Seiten, Maße: 13 x 19,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: And Other Stories
- ISBN-10: 1908276029
- ISBN-13: 9781908276025
- Erscheinungsdatum: 03.09.2012
Sprache:
Englisch
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'Deborah Levy's storytelling is allusive, elliptical and disturbing. Her touch is gentle, often funny and always acute - This is a prizewinner.' Julia Pascal, The Independent ---- A stealthily devastating book - Levy manipulates light and shadow with artfulness. She transfixes the reader - This is an intelligent, pulsating literary beast.' Philip Womack, The Daily Telegraph ---- 'Swimming Home is a statement on the power of the unsaid. Magisterial - Themes, phrases and images recur in rhythmic cycles through this fugal novel. Levy's cinematic clarity and momentum convey confusion with remarkable lucidity.' Abigail Deutsch, TLS ---- 'Deborah Levy has made something strange and new - spiky and unsettling. In Swimming Home, home is elusive, safety is unlikely, and the reader closes the book both satisfied and unnerved.' John Self, The Guardian ---- 'Swimming Home is as sharp as a wasp sting.' Christina Petrie, Sunday Times ---- 'A compact treasure.' Boyd Tonkin, in his round-up of the year's best fiction, The Independent ---- 'Dark, sometimes humorous, intriguing and tragic, Levy's tale held me captive from its dramatic beginning' Lucy Popescu, The Tablet ---- 'Levy's strength is her originality of thought and expression.' Jeanette Winterson ---- 'I made notes to read as much as I can find by Deborah Levy' Bookslut.com ---- 'She is one of the few contemporary British writers comfortable on a world stage.' New Statesman ---- 'The strange brilliance of her imagination' The Independent ---- 'Levy is an exciting writer, sharp and shocking as the knives her characters wield.' Sunday Times
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