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Swimming Studies (Paperback)
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Swimming Studies (Paperback)
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'Pure genius, gliding lyricism ... It is, simply, a delight'
Independent on Sunday 'Vivid with chlorine-bleached swimsuits, and
post-match sorrow' Caitlin Moran, Observer, Books of the Year As a
teenager, Leanne Shapton trained for the Olympic swimming trials;
now an artist, she is still drawn inexorably to swimming, in pools
and the sea. What do you do with an all-absorbing activity once it
is past its relevance, and yet you can't quite give it up? Swimming
Studies is a lyrical, playful work that explores what it is like to
move from a world of competition to one of recreation and
introspection, giving a sideways glimpse into memory, adolescence,
swimming, drawing, obsession and solitude. 'Exquisite ...
brilliant, eccentric and moving - an immersion in life ... this
enigmatic book is written out of what cannot be fathomed' Observer
'A rich account ... told with the originality and playfulness of an
artist ... Shapton shares Dave Eggers' talent for taking the
mundane and making it viscerally new' The Times 'Captures a
bittersweet part of the writer's past as completely as a scent
trapped in a bottle' John Jeremiah Sullivan, author of Pulphead 'If
there is a more beautifully observed examination of the
weightlessness, silence, rigour and delight of what it means to
swim, I've never read it' David Rakoff, author of Half Empty
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