News of the Swimmer Reaches Shore - 9780864735324
Un libro in lingua di Gregory O'Brien edito da Victoria Univ Pr, 2008
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At once a travel book, an autobiographical novel and free-floating meditation on Europe and the Antipodes, News of the Swimmer Reaches Shore begins with its narrator suspended in the salty, tideless waters of the Mediterranean. Adrift on an ocean of art history, literature and music, of memories and a dream-like present, O'Brien introduces a cast of underwater characters that includes Jacques Cousteau, the French secret service agent Dominique Prieur, Henri Matisse and the naked river-swimming nineteenth-century nun Mother Aubert. 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 by one of New Zealand's most celebrated writers.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: News of the Swimmer Reaches Shore
- Sottotitolo: A Guide to French Usage
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Gregory O'Brien
- Editore: Victoria Univ Pr
- Collana: Victoria Univ Pr (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 01 Aprile '08
- Genere: BIOGRAPHY and AUTOBIOGRAPHY
- Pagine: 160
- Dimensioni mm: 209 x 139 x 12
- ISBN-10: 0864735324
- EAN-13: 9780864735324