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News of the Swimmer Reaches Shore

Gregory OBrien author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Te Herenga Waka University Press

Published:2nd Feb '07

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A travel book, an autobiographical novel, and a free-floating meditation on Europe and the Antipodes, this personal memoir begins with its narrator suspended in the salty, tideless waters of the Mediterranean. Adrift on an ocean of art history, literature and music, memories and a dream-like present, modernism, the politics of French nuclear testing, swimming, drowning, and underwater explosions are twined together with the life of a family in an innovative and engaging exploration.

ISBN: 9780864735324

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Weight: unknown

160 pages