{"product_id":"9780006551973","title":"Swimmer","description":"Author: Broady, Bill\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780006551973\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: HarperCollins Publishers\u003cbr\u003eYear First Published: 2001\u003cbr\u003ePages: 144\u003cbr\u003eDimensions: 197mm x 128mm x 9mm\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescription: \u003cbr\u003eShe swims into the medals and then into oblivion – a sensuous, searing, compact debut from an outstanding new British writer.\u003cbr\u003e\n This is a striking, supple and direct debut from a new English writer that both promises an exceptionally exciting future and provides an unusual, accomplished and saleable debut. It’s a character piece, charting the life of a girl who becomes besotted with butterflies and swimming on the same holiday when an infant, then grows up to become a world-class swimmer before, at 19, obsolescence overtakes her with disorienting haste… If taken on its own terms – as an intense and focused portrait – it is simply staggering; a miniature, but a perfect one. It is stuffed with gorgeously apt and fresh imagery and has tremendous verve about it. It reads, in fact, like a race, as it should.","brand":"Print on demand - ships in 1 to 3 months","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42537380970654,"sku":"HPC-9780006551973","price":21.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/products\/9780006551973.jpg?v=1681115886","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780006551973","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}