Learning to Swim (Paperback)

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LAST ORDERS AND MOTHERING SUNDAY, reissued for the first time in Scribner Graham Swift's first collection of short stories confirms his power to bring an edge of the extraordinary, the dangerous or the subversive into otherwise familiar, safe, even comforting settings. On a holiday beach, a mismatched couple wage a sexually charged war for the devotion of their literally floundering son. A family doctor, oppressed by his own domestic insecurities, intimidates an apparent time-wasting patient. A zookeeper becomes the keeper of a bizarre fixation . . . While vividly evoking a recognisable English geography, these startling stories have an eye for the foreign, for the experience of refugees or for less definable zones of bewilderment and strangeness. More than one has a touch of the ghostly. Highly located yet haunted and haunting, they penetrate a hidden world of human dislocation. 'Graham Swift should be read by everyone with an interest in the art of the short story' Paul Bailey, Evening Standard 'A masterful collection of stories' USA Today

General

Imprint:	Scribner UK
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	July 2019
Authors:	Graham Swift
Dimensions:	198 x 130 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	272
ISBN-13:	978-1-4711-8754-4
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	1-4711-8754-3
Barcode:	9781471187544

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