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Swimming Studies
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award Back in print, a "fusion of cool, clear-eyed prose...
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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
Back in print, a "fusion of cool, clear-eyed prose and watercolors, photographs and painted portraits" (Time Out New York) by celebrated author and artist Leanne Shapton, on a sport that has shaped her life. Intimate with chlorinated space; weightless yet limited; closed off to taste, sound, and most sight; acutely aware of the clock: this is a swimmer's state. When ten-year-old Leanne Shapton joins an Ontario township swim team with her brother, she finds an affinity for its rhythms--and spends years training, making it to the Olympic trials twice. Swimming Studies reflects on her time immersed in a world of rigor and determination, routine and competition, pairing together contemplative essays and paintings. Vivid details of an aquatic life appear: adolescence in suburban Canada, dawn risings for morning practice, bus rides with teammates, a growing collection of swimsuits, dips in lakes and oceans. When she trades athletic pursuits for artistic ones, the metrics of moving through water endure. In these elegant and potent meditations, Shapton renders swimming as a mode of experiencing time, movement, and perspective, capable of shaping our lives in every environment.Author: Leanne Shapton
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 03/25/2025
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.50w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781250290670
Audience: Young Adult
About the Author
Leanne Shapton is a Canadian artist, writer, and publisher, and is the art editor at The New York Review of Books. She has contributed illustrations to a number of magazines, journals, and books, including Women in Clothes, a collaborative project with Sheila Heti and Heidi Julavits; and her own Swimming Studies, which won the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography. She lives in New York City.
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