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She swims into the medals and then into oblivion - a sensuous, searing, compact debut from an outstanding new British writer. This is a striking, supple and direct debut from a new English writer that both promises an exceptionally exciting future and provides an unusual, accomplished and saleable debut. It's a character piece, charting the life of a girl who becomes besotted with butterflies and swimming on the same holiday when an infant, then grows up to become a world-class swimmer before, at 19, obsolescence overtakes her with disorienting haste...If taken on its own terms - as an intense and focused portrait - it is simply staggering; a miniature, but a perfect one. It is stuffed with gorgeously apt and fresh imagery and has tremendous verve about it. It reads, in fact, like a race, as it should.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Swimmer
• Author: Bill Broady
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144
• EAN: 9780006551973
• ISBN: 0006551971
• ID: 04482826
• Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers
• Weight: 112 g
• Dimensions: 197 × 130 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 16. October 2000

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