Title: Swimming Home Author: Deborah Levy Notable: "Shortlisted For The Man Booker Prize " Setting: French Riviera Initial Allurement: Intriguing cover, setting, a good read for summer Pro: Poetic language Con: Lack of substance Verdict: I abandoned Swimming Home /5(). · W ith her first novel in 15 years, Deborah Levy has taken worn structures and made something strange and new. The familiar elements in Swimming Home are a Estimated Reading Time: 3 mins. Naomi Benaron, whose Bellwether Prize winning first novel, Running the Rift, is set during the Rwandan genocide, chats with Deborah Levy about her latest novel, Swimming Home. Naomi: First, I would like to congratulate you on all your honors for Swimming Home: shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, shortlisted for the Jewish Quarterly Wingate Prize and shortlisted for National Book Awards Author of .
Deborah Levy (born in South Africa) is a British playwright, novelist, and poet. Her work has been staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company and she is the author of novels including Black Vodka, Billy and Girl, Pillow Talk in Europe and Other Places and Beautiful Mutants and the Booker-shortlisted Swimming Home. Check out Deborah Levy's. Swimming Home (Paperback) Published October 6th by And Other Stories. Paperback, pages. Author (s): Deborah Levy, Tom McCarthy (Introduction) ISBN: (ISBN ) Edition language. "Swimming Home 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, The New York Times Book Review.
From the first brief chapters of Deborah Levy’s spare, disturbing and frequently funny novel, which was a finalist for this year’s Man Booker Prize, we sense that things will turn out badly. ‘Swimming Home is as sharp as a wasp sting Witty and poignant, its pages melt away like an unsettling yet familiar dream.’ The Guardian ‘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.’ The Telegraph. 'Swimming Home' is a subversive page-turner, a merciless gaze at the insidiuos 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 week in which a group of beautiful, flawed tourists in the French Riviera come loose at the bltadwin.ruisted for the Man Booker Prize.
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