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Awards
OverviewShortlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize Shortlisted for the 2012 Specsavers National Book Awards (UK Author of the Year) Shortlisted for the 2013 Jewish Quarterly Wingate Prize 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 wife allow her to remain? 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Deborah Levy , Tom McCarthyPublisher: And Other Stories Imprint: And Other Stories Dimensions: Width: 12.90cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 19.80cm Weight: 0.266kg ISBN: 9781908276025ISBN 10: 1908276029 Pages: 165 Publication Date: 06 October 2011 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviews'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 Author InformationDeborah Levy is a British playwright, novelist and poet. Her novels include the Booker-shortlisted Swimming Home (2011) and Hot Milk (2016), and the Booker-longlisted The Man Who Saw Everything (2019). Deborah is also the author of a collection of short stories, Black Vodka (2013), and a trilogy of prize-winning Living Autobiographies: Things I Don’t Want to Know, The Cost of Living, and Real Estate. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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