Swimming Home
by:
Deborah Levy (author)
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...
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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 enigmatic wife allow her to remain?A subversively brilliant study of love, Swimming Home reveals how the most devastating secrets are the ones we keep from ourselves.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781620401699 (162040169X)
ASIN: 162040169X
Publish date: October 16th 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Pages no: 157
Edition language: English
https://msarki.tumblr.com/post/159260018863/swimming-home-by-deborah-levy…She was not ready to go home and start imitating someone she used to be…All these suspects on holiday together sharing a villa, a pool, and the rambling grounds of the estate surrounding them are not who they appear to be. The...
Kitty takes fourteen year old Nina pony riding. I'm not sure why, really, as it seems a little unlikely (Nina is fourteen going on twenty, and not the horsy sort). But there's rather a lot of the unlikely here, so all par for the course. Anyway, it provides us with this memorable scene: (Kitty) was...
I can appreciate why this book would appeal to others, but it really just wasn't my cup of tea. The writing is poetic and the hallucinations and descriptions of mental instability are artful. I appreciate and understand that this novel is a bit like a Suzanne Vega song. It resonates dreams and po...
Swimming Home was kindly provided to me by Netgalley for Bloomsbury USA."Life is only worth living because we hope it will get better and we'll all get home safely." After spotting this on Netgalley I found myself intrigued but ultimately willing to wait for it to be published. A few days later the ...
The characters were flat, undifferentiated. They were faceless to me, doing nothing, being nothing, but somehow permeating the book with their unspoken whining. Intensely irritating. They all melted together as an amorphous mass of indecipherable...nothingness. I am so done with this book.
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