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The Swimmers

Author : Julie Otsuka
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0593321332
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book The Swimmers written by Julie Otsuka and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BEST SELLER • From the best-selling, award-winning author of The Buddha in the Attic and When the Emperor Was Divine comes a novel about what happens to a group of obsessed recreational swimmers when a crack appears at the bottom of their local pool. This searing, intimate story of mothers and daughters—and the sorrows of implacable loss—is the most commanding and unforgettable work yet from a modern master. The swimmers are unknown to one another except through their private routines (slow lane, medium lane, fast lane) and the solace each takes in their morning or afternoon laps. But when a crack appears at the bottom of the pool, they are cast out into an unforgiving world without comfort or relief. One of these swimmers is Alice, who is slowly losing her memory. For Alice, the pool was a final stand against the darkness of her encroaching dementia. Without the fellowship of other swimmers and the routine of her daily laps she is plunged into dislocation and chaos, swept into memories of her childhood and the Japanese American incarceration camp in which she spent the war. Alice's estranged daughter, reentering her mother's life too late, witnesses her stark and devastating decline.

The Swimmer

Author :
Publisher : Pioneer Drama Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Swimmer written by and published by Pioneer Drama Service, Inc.. This book was released on with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Swimmer

Author : Eleanor Perry
Publisher : New York : Stein and Day
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Swimmer written by Eleanor Perry and published by New York : Stein and Day. This book was released on 1967 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Burt Lancaster

Author : Kate Buford
Publisher : Aurum
ISBN 13 : 1781312001
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book Burt Lancaster written by Kate Buford and published by Aurum. This book was released on 2013-07-08 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burt Lancaster is perhaps most widely remembered as the tough, iron-jawed star of films such as Gunfight at the OK Corral and Airport. But as this superbly readable and insightful biography demonstrates, he was an actor with much broader ambitions – brilliantly realised in Visconti’s The Leopard – as well as the founder of the first actor-led production company in Hollywood. Lancaster’s liberal political views led not only to frequent clashes with the House Un-American Activities Committee and a voluminous FBI file, but also a private life that was colourful even by Hollywood standards. Although a devoted father and husband (to three wives), the actor took numerous lovers – of both sexes. In his sexual tastes as in his choice of roles, he defied classification. Kate Buford’s definitive biography offers a full, frank, sensitive and compelling portrait of the star of Atlantic City, From Here to Eternity and Elmer Gantry (for which he won a Best Actor Oscar). Lancaster emerges as a man of restless energy, relentless curiosity and continual development as an actor: a star every bit as interesting offscreen as on. As one American reviewer put it: ‘Not many film stars receive first-class biographies; Burt Lancaster not only deserved one, he got one.’ Acclaimed biographer Kate Buford has been a regular commentator on National Public Radio in the United States since 1994.

The Stories of John Cheever

Author : John Cheever
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307743985
Total Pages : 1093 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book The Stories of John Cheever written by John Cheever and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-04-20 with total page 1093 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A seminal collection from one of the true masters of the short story. Spanning the duration of Cheever’s long and distinguished career, these sixty-one stories chronicle and encapsulate the lives of what has been called “the greatest generation.” From the early wonder and disillusionment of city life in “The Enormous Radio” to the surprising discoveries and common mysteries of suburbia in “The Housebreaker of Shady Hill” and “The Swimmer,” these are tales that have helped define the form. Featuring a preface by the Pulizter Prize-winning author, The Stories of John Cheever brings together some of the finest short stories ever written. "Cheever’s crowning achievement is the ability to be simultaneously generous and cynical, to see that the absurd and the profound can reside in the same moment, and to acknowledge both at the detriment of neither." —The Guardian

The Swimmer

Author : Graham Norton
Publisher : Coronet
ISBN 13 : 9781529388015
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book The Swimmer written by Graham Norton and published by Coronet. This book was released on 2022-04-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quick Reads 2022 Helen is a retired teacher living on the Irish coast. She enjoys the peace and quiet - despite the burden of Margaret, her unpleasant sister. Margaret arrived three years ago for a short holiday, but somehow managed to stay and worm her way into Helen's life. One day, Helen sees a man struggling in the sea and decides to investigate. She doesn't quite know what it is, but something about it feels very strange...

Haunts of the Black Masseur

Author : Charles Sprawson
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 0307823644
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Haunts of the Black Masseur written by Charles Sprawson and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2012-08-29 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a masterful work of cultural history, Charles Sprawson, himself an obsessional swimmer and fluent diver, explores the meaning that different cultures have attached to water, and the search for the springs of classical antiquity. In nineteenth-century England bathing was thought to be an instrument of social and moral reform, while in Germany and America swimming came to signify escape. For the Japanese the swimmer became an expression of samurai pride and nationalism. Sprawson gives is fascinating glimpses of the great swimming heroes: Byron leaping dramatically into the surf at Shelley’s beach funeral; Rupert Brooke swimming naked with Virginia Woolf, the dark water “smelling of mint and mud”; Hart Crane swallow-diving to his death in the Bay of Mexico; Edgar Allan Poe’s lone and mysterious river-swims; Leander, Webb, Weissmuller, and a host of others. Informed by the literature of Swinburne, Goethe, Scott Fitzgerald, and Yukio Mishima; the films of Riefenstahl and Vigo; the Hollywood “swimming musicals” of the 1930s; and delving in and out of Olympic history, Haunts of the Black Masseur is an enthralling assessment of man—body submerged, self-absorbed. It is quite simply the best celebration of swimming ever written, even as it explores aspects of culture in a heretofore unimagined way.

Swimmer Among the Stars

Author : Kanishk Tharoor
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0374715394
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Swimmer Among the Stars written by Kanishk Tharoor and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian and NPR “A writer who is gifted not just with extraordinary talent but also with a subtle, original, and probing mind.” —Amitav Ghosh In one of the singularly imaginative stories from Kanishk Tharoor’s Swimmer Among the Stars, despondent diplomats entertain themselves by playing table tennis in zero gravity—for after rising seas destroy Manhattan, the United Nations moves to an orbiting space hotel. In other tales, a team of anthropologists treks to a remote village to record a language’s last surviving speaker intoning her native tongue; an elephant and his driver cross the ocean to meet the whims of a Moroccan princess; and Genghis Khan’s marauding army steadily approaches an unnamed city’s walls. With exuberant originality and startling vision, Tharoor cuts against the grain of literary convention, drawing equally from ancient history and current events. His world-spanning stories speak to contemporary challenges of environmental collapse and cultural appropriation, but also to the workings of legend and their timeless human truths. Whether refashioning the romances of Alexander the Great or confronting the plight of today’s refugees, Tharoor writes with distinctive insight and remarkable assurance. Swimmer Among the Stars announces the arrival of a vital, enchanting talent.

Freedom Swimmer

Author : Wai Chim
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1338656147
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (386 download)

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Download or read book Freedom Swimmer written by Wai Chim and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful story of friendship, bravery, and a desperate bid for freedom, inspired by true events. Ming survived the famine that killed his parents during China's "Great Leap Forward", and lives a hard but adequate life, working in the fields. When a group of city boys comes to the village as part of a Communist Party re-education program, Ming and his friends aren't sure what to make of the new arrivals. They're not used to hard labor and village life. But despite his reservations, Ming befriends a charming city boy called Li. The two couldn't be more different, but slowly they form a bond over evening swims and shared dreams. But as the bitterness of life under the Party begins to take its toll on both boys, they begin to imagine the impossible: freedom.

America's Champion Swimmer

Author : David A. Adler
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780152052515
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (525 download)

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Download or read book America's Champion Swimmer written by David A. Adler and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2000 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One woman's gritty determination to succeed

Swimmer

Author : Shelley Gill
Publisher : Blue Star Press
ISBN 13 : 0934007241
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Swimmer written by Shelley Gill and published by Blue Star Press. This book was released on 1997-07-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thrilling story of the Chinook salmon beautifully illustrates nature's circle and the cycle of life. The story of the Chinook salmon is nothing less than a miracle of nature. She hatches from a tiny pearl-colored egg and begins her adventure - a 10,000-mile journey from the gravel bed of Caribou Creek to the Pacific and back. This book is part of the PAWS IV Publishing series and was originally published in 1995. Special thanks to biologists Bill Bushur, Henry Yuen, Suzi Lozo and Richard Barnes and elder Elena Charles and all the kids and parents from Newtok, Atmautlauk, Napaskiak and Kwethluk who helped me understand yaaruiq.

The Swimmers

Author : Marian Womack
Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
ISBN 13 : 1789095921
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Swimmers written by Marian Womack and published by Titan Books (US, CA). This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A claustrophobic, literary dystopia set in the hot, luscious landscape of Andalusia from the author of The Golden Key. “A richly imagined eco-gothic tale.” – The Guardian "Exquisitely realised.” – The Times After the ravages of the Green Winter, Earth is a place of deep jungles and monstrous animals. The last of the human race is divided into surface dwellers and the people who live in the Upper Settlement, a ring perched at the edge of the Earth’s atmosphere. Bearing witness to this divided planet is Pearl, a young techie with a thread of shuvani blood, who lives in the isolated forests of Gobari, navigating her mad mother and the strange blue light in the sky. But Pearl’s stepfather promises her to a starborn called Arlo, and the world Pearl thought she knew will never be the same again. Set in the luscious landscape of Andalusia, this claustrophobic, dystopian reimagining of Wide Sargasso Sea is a literary fever dream, a blazing vision of self-destruction and transformation.

The Swimmer

Author : John Henry Mackay
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1465321470
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book The Swimmer written by John Henry Mackay and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2002-01-23 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Swimmer is one of the very first literary sports novels. Although not a competitive swimmer himself, Mackay was a passionate swimmer and well acquainted with the scene of competitive swimming and diving in Berlin around 1900. This historical picture of the sports world at that time will be familiar to today ́s readers in many ways, but may surprise us in its details, for example, of competitions no longer widely practiced, such as "diving for plates" and "swimming with obstacles." For this reason it is a valuable historical document. It is also an exciting sports story with "the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat." But The Swimmer is much more: it is a fascinating psychological study of the rise and fall of a champion swimmer in his single-minded pursuit of his sport - and fame. Mackay ́s protagonist Franz Felder was "born to swim" and we follow his first, happy dip into the water to his last, fatal plunge. All attention is on young Felder, but other characters are clearly delineated: his wise coach, the equally single-minded sculptor, the seductress from the international demi-monde - last, and alas least, the loyal, devoted fan. The story is told with insight and compassion, as Mackay, the "omniscient narrator," looks into the deepest feelings and motives of his protagonist, whom Mackay ́s biographer has described as "an enchanted beast of the fairy tale books, under whose rough exterior is hidden a prince"-a price who "never found the charm that would have brought out his true character." Mackay makes all of this come alive for us, so that we sympathize with Felder even as we perceive the flaws that bring about his downfall. The book can be read on several levels: as a historical document, a thrilling sports story, a human drama. In every case, it is a good read.

The Swimmer

Author : Zsuzsa Bánk
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780151009329
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Swimmer written by Zsuzsa Bánk and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2004 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hungary, 1956. Without a word, Katalin leaves her family and sets out for the West. Her husband, Kalman, abandons the family farm and begins a long and circuitous journey through Hungary with his two young children, Kata and Isti. Staying briefly with distant relatives in unfamiliar cities and villages, Kalman keeps his family on the move and shuns anything resembling a home or a steady life. As their father sinks into depression, Kata and her brother create their own imaginary universe: Kata invents relationships with the people they meet during their long journey while Isti converses with the world around him-houses, stones, snow, skies. It is only in rare moments, on riverbanks and lakeshores where Kata and Isti swim with their father, that they experience a semblance of calm and happiness. Moments that feel as if life is just beginning for them . . .

Nightswimmer

Author : Joseph Olshan
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1480421553
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Nightswimmer written by Joseph Olshan and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-07-09 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVDIVIn this brilliant literary mosaic centered around a love affair, acclaimed novelist Joseph Olshan explores the intense pressures and passions of gay life in New York City during the AIDS epidemic /divDIV Ten years ago, Will Kaplan and his lover went for a night swim in the Pacific Ocean—but only Will emerged. In the decade that followed, Will relocated to the other end of the continent, filling his days with shallow and pointless affairs, unable to come to terms with the bizarre disappearance that could have been a tragic drowning, a well-planned abandonment, or both./divDIV /divDIVWhile immersing himself in New York’s gay bar and disco scene, and a hedonistic Fire Island culture darkened by the grim specter of AIDS, Will meets Sean Paris, a young man as tortured and damaged by the past as Will himself. Drawn together by mutual doubts, needs, secrets, and obsessions, the intense relationship that they form will make waves in their circles of friends and ex-lovers, transforming Will’s life forever. /div/div

The Night Swimmer

Author : Matt Bondurant
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451625316
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book The Night Swimmer written by Matt Bondurant and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-01-10 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An “evocative and often lyrical” (San Francisco Chronicle) novel about a young American couple who win a pub on the southernmost tip of Ireland and become embroiled in the local violence and intrigue. The Night Swimmer, Matt Bondurant’s utterly riveting modern gothic novel of marriage and belonging, confirms his gift for storytelling that transports and enthralls. In a small town on the southern coast of Ireland, an isolated place only frequented by fishermen and the occasional group of bird-watchers, Fred and Elly Bulkington, newly arrived from Vermont having won a pub in a contest, encounter a wild, strange land shaped by the pounding storms of the North Atlantic, as well as the native resistance to strangers. As Fred revels in the life of a new pubowner, Elly takes the ferry out to a nearby island where anyone not born there is called a “blow-in.” To the disbelief of the locals, Elly devotes herself to open-water swimming, pushing herself to the limit and crossing unseen boundaries that drive her into the heart of the island’s troubles—the mysterious tragedy that shrouds its inhabitants and the dangerous feud between an enigmatic farmer and a powerful clan that has no use for outsiders. The poignant unraveling of a marriage, the fierce beauty of the natural world, the mysterious power of Irish lore, and the gripping story of strangers in a strange land rife with intrigue and violence—The Night Swimmer is a novel of myriad enchantments by a writer of extraordinary talent.

Soul of a Swimmer

Author : Carla Albano
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781735919362
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book Soul of a Swimmer written by Carla Albano and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-13 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soul of a Swimmer is the true story of Nicholas Dworet, a champion swimmer from Florida. Through interviews with his family, friends, coaches, and teammates, the book fondly describes the lifelong process of nurturing a child who has extraordinary talent and ebullient dreams as he develops into an elite athlete. As Nick matures, a young man with a remarkably humble and genuine character emerges amid his athletic successes. When he was a senior in high school, Nick found his Olympic dreams within reach. But tragically, his life was cut short in the Parkland, Florida, school shooting. Nick's story will resonate with the reader forever.