Swimming in Paris : a life in three stories / Colombe Schneck ; translated by Lauren Elkin and Natasha Lehrer.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: French Publisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2024Description: x, 224 pages ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780593655931
- 0593655931
- Schneck, Colombe, 1966- Dix-sept ans. English
- Schneck, Colombe, 1966- Deux petites bourgeoises. English
- Schneck, Colombe, 1966- La tendresse du crawl. English
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | Fiction | SCHNECK, COLOMBE | Processing | 33111011356553 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A Natalie Portman Book Club Pick
From the award-winning and bestselling French author Colombe Schneck, a woman's personal journey through abortion, sex, friendship, love, and swimming
At fifty years old, while taking swimming lessons, I finally realized that my body was not actually as incompetent as I'd thought. My physical gestures had been, until then, small, worried, tense. In swimming I learned to extend them. I saw male bodies swimming beside me, and I swam past them, I was delighted, my breasts got smaller, my uterus stopped working. My body, by showing me who I was, allowed me to become fully myself.
In Seventeen , Friendship , and Swimming , Colombe Schneck orchestrates a coming-of-age in three movements. Beautiful, masterfully controlled, yet filled with pathos, they invite the reader into a decades-long evolution of sexuality, bodily autonomy, friendship, and loss.
Schneck's prose maintains an unwavering intimacy, whether conjuring a teenage abortion in the midst of a privileged Parisian upbringing, the nuance of a long friendship, or a midlife romance. Swimming in Paris is an immersive, propulsive triptych--fundamentally human in its tender concern for every messy and glorious reality of the body, and deeply wise in its understanding of both desire and of letting go.
Includes bibliographical references.
Seventeen -- Friendship -- Swimming: a love story.
"A woman's personal journey through abortion, sex, friendship, love, and swimming"-- Provided by publisher.