{"product_id":"9781620401699","title":"Swimming Home : A Novel","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eSwimming Home\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Deborah Levy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelected 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)\u003cbr\u003eAs 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?\u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003e The Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Ms. Levy is a stealthy storyteller, lulling us while busy scattering clues.\" - Susannah Meadows, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNominated Man Booker Award - Nominee (2012)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781620401699\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40594379440334,"sku":"9781620401699","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_40c17463-03c3-40bb-a1b3-eebfa301a84e.jpg?v=1637806891","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781620401699","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}