Learning to Swim

Beschreibung

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LAST ORDERS AND MOTHERING SUNDAY, reissued for the first time in Scribner<BR><BR> Graham Swift’s first collection of short stories confirms his power to bring an edge of the extraordinary, the dangerous or the subversive into otherwise familiar, safe, even comforting settings. On a holiday beach, a mismatched couple wage a sexually charged war for the devotion of their literally floundering son.

A family doctor, oppressed by his own domestic insecurities, intimidates an apparent time-wasting patient. A zookeeper becomes the keeper of a bizarre fixation . . .<BR><BR> While vividly evoking a recognisable English geography, these startling stories have an eye for the foreign, for the experience of refugees or for less definable zones of bewilderment and strangeness. More than one has a touch of the ghostly.

Highly located yet haunted and haunting, they penetrate a hidden world of human dislocation.<BR><BR>‘Graham Swift should be read by everyone with an interest in the art of the short story’ Paul Bailey, Evening Standard<BR><BR>‘A masterful collection of stories’ USA Today<BR>

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