title: Swimming Home: A Novel
author:  Deborah Levy 
description: This short but extraordinary novel, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2012, takes place in the south of France, where two English couples and ones teenage daughter are sharing a vacation home. One day a woman, Kitty Finch, emerges naked from the swimming pool and becomes the force field shaping the couples actions and those of the few secondary characters for the succeeding week. Kitty is, in the words of Levys spare and haunting prose, a window that was waiting to be climbed through. The tension between the two familiespoet Joe (Jozef) Jacobs, his war correspondent wife, Isabel, and their daughter, Nina; and Mitchell and his wife, Laurais palpable, and Levys surgically precise language insightfully reveals their characters with the intensity of a tightly controlled play. Levys changes of pace and tone, from poetic to vulgar, drive this very arresting novelat times suggestive of D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolfto its unsettling conclusion. --Mark Levine
zlib_text: Also by Joshilyn Jackson
  
  _gods in Alabama_
  
   _Between, Georgia_
  
   _The Girl Who Stopped Swimming_
  
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  Copyright © 2010 by Joshilyn Jackson
  
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