This story collection by multiple award-winning poet, author and
playwright Kobus Moolman is a volume of unconventional potency.
Written in a range of styles, voices and genres, each of the ten
stories offers original insights into the difficulties of staying
afloat. Whether the challenge is being differently abled (with all
the outsider isolation this brings); lower-income family life under
unbending patriarchal rule; or being born a female child in an
abusive, gendered culture, the narratives are convincing (often
humorous) in their portrayal of trapped lives striving for
transcendence. The darkly funny `Kiss and the Brigadier' invokes
the stultifying boredom of small-town life and the captured
mentalities of its understimulated citizens; `Extracts from a
Dispensable Life' offers a creative and sensitive reading of the
gender violence theme; while the irreverent but never disrespectful
`Angel Heart' ventures into the risky waters of religious send-up.
The Swimming Lesson and Other Stories is a collection that stands
out for its unusual perspectives; its frank, often uncomfortable
treatment of taboo topics; its creative risk-taking; and its
skilful and observant recreation of worlds gone by, which still
leave their aftershocks.
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