Swimming Studies

by Leanne Shapton

Book Overview

Swimming Studies is a collection of autobiographical sketches that explore the worlds of competitive and recreational swimming. From her training for the Olympic trials as a teenager, to meditative swims in pools and oceans as an adult, Leanne Shapton contemplates the sport that has shaped her life. Her spare and elegant writing reveals an intimate narrative of suburban adolescence, spent underwater in a discipline that continues to inspire Shapton's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0399174842
• ISBN13: 9780399174841
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Riverhead Books
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher