{"product_id":"swimming-home-paperback","title":"Swimming Home - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDeborah Levy\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelected for the 2012 Man Booker Prize short list. \"Levy manipulates light and shadow with artfulness. She transfixes the reader: we recognize...the thing of darkness in us all. This is an intelligent, pulsating literary beast.\" --The Telegraph (UK)\u003cbr\u003eAs he arrives with his family at the villa in the hills above Nice, Joe sees a body in the swimming pool. But the girl is very much alive. She is Kitty Finch: a self-proclaimed botanist with green-painted fingernails, walking naked out of the water and into the heart of their holiday. Why is she there? What does she want from them all? And why does Joe's enigmatic wife allow her to remain?\u003cbr\u003eA subversively brilliant study of love, \u003ci\u003eSwimming Home\u003c\/i\u003e reveals how the most devastating secrets are the ones we keep from ourselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDeborah Levy\u003c\/b\u003e writes fiction, plays, and poetry. Her work has been staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company and broadcast on the BBC. She is the author of highly praised novels including \u003ci\u003eBeautiful Mutants, Swallowing Geography\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBilly and Girl. \u003c\/i\u003eShe lives in London.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.2 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 16, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51770602750240,"sku":"9781620401699","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/e541110aa97ef0b4bde07df6b60bebe1.webp?v=1780374980","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/swimming-home-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}