The Long Swim: Stories

by Terese Svoboda

A runaway circus lion haunts a small town where two lovers risk more than their respective marriages. A junket to Cuba and an ambassador's dalliance with a niece hide dark secrets and political revolution. "I've always had a knife," says the unstable stepson to his parents. Inventive, dark, and absurd, the stories in The Long Swim capture Terese Svoboda's clear-eyed, wry angle on the world: a place of violence and uncertainty but also wild...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 162534807X
• ISBN13: 9781625348074
• Release Date: March 2024
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"