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# Swimming Home Paperback – 8 Aug 2011

**Brand:** deborah levy
**Price:** € 12.35
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- **What is this?** Swimming Home Paperback – 8 Aug 2011 by deborah levy
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        			&apos;Swimming Home is as sharp as a wasp sting ... Witty and poignant, its pages melt away like an unsettling yet familiar dream.&apos; Sunday Times ---------- &apos;Deborah Levy has made something strange and new ... spiky and unsettling. In this novel, home is elusive, safety is unlikely, and the reader closes the book both satisfied and unnerved.&apos; The Guardian ---------- &apos;A stealthily devastating book ... 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.&apos; The Telegraph ---------- &apos;Swimming Home is a beautiful, delicate book underpinned by a complexity that only reveals itself slowly to the reader.&apos; Financial Times ---------- &apos;This amazing novel is a haunting exploration of loss and longing. It has an epic quality.&apos; The Independent ---------- &apos;A statement on the power of the unsaid. Magisterial ... Themes, phrases and images recur in rhythmic cycles through this fugal novel. Levy&apos;s cinematic clarity and momentum convey confusion with remarkable lucidity.&apos; Times Literary Supplement ---------- &apos;As the reader is drawn beneath the placid surface of her characters&apos; experiences, Levy reveals a more urgent world humming with symbols.&apos; Literary Review ---------- &apos;Exquisite ... Levy&apos;s sense of dramatic form, as she hastens us toward the grim finale, is unerring, and her prose effortlessly summons people and landscapes.&apos; New Yorker ---------- &apos;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&apos;s wry, accomplished novel.&apos; New York Times ---------- &apos;Elegant ... subtle ... uncanny... The seductive pleasure of Levy&apos;s prose stems from its layered brilliance.&apos; Washington Post ---------- &apos;Here is an excellent story, told with the subtlety and menacing tension of a veteran playwright.&apos; Wall Street Journal
				    	
					
        		
        		
        	
        
        	
        		About the Author
        	
        	
        		
        			Deborah Levy is an author, playwright and poet. Her fiction includes two Man Booker Prize shortlisted novels, Swimming Home (2011) and Hot Milk (2016), as well as Black Vodka (2013), shortlisted for the Frank O&apos;Connor International Short Story Award.

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## Customer Reviews

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    Excellent literary fiction
  

*by D***S on 27 December 2018*









  
  
    I bought everything I could of Levy's after reading the fantastic 'Hot Milk', which is still my favourite piece of hers. 'Swimming Home' is also excellent - quiet, character-focused, interesting. It remains pacey even when characters are being introspective. There's a strong 'showing not telling' element for most of the book, in a Hemingway style only with more poetical prose. Readable, with depth, though perhaps a touch trite by the end. Recommended.8/10David BrookesAuthor of 'Cycles of Udaipur'
  


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    The pain behind the mask
  

*by C***L on 11 November 2018*









  
  
    In true DEBORAH LEVY style, this book is a devastating account of the relationships dividing and binding a commonplace collection of middle class Londoners on holiday in the south of France. Each one is fatally marked by their history, as each in their own way battles to construct a bearable life in a social world that offers little comfort or support beneath its facade of sunshine, beaches and holiday manners.
  


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    Disappointed with my first Deborah Levy.
  

*by I***T on 14 August 2017*









  
  
    From the blurb I thought it sounded great, but was a little disappointed with the way the book was written.  Quite strange goings-on.  Not that easy to follow.  Some interesting parts about the relationship between mother and daughter.  I have given it to a charity shop - sorry.
  


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