Swimmer Among the Stars

2017-03-14 Fiction

Author : Kanishk Tharoor
Release : 2017-03-14
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 394/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Swimmer Among the Stars written by Kanishk Tharoor. This book was released on 2017-03-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian and NPR “A writer who is gifted not just with extraordinary talent but also with a subtle, original, and probing mind.” —Amitav Ghosh In one of the singularly imaginative stories from Kanishk Tharoor’s Swimmer Among the Stars, despondent diplomats entertain themselves by playing table tennis in zero gravity—for after rising seas destroy Manhattan, the United Nations moves to an orbiting space hotel. In other tales, a team of anthropologists treks to a remote village to record a language’s last surviving speaker intoning her native tongue; an elephant and his driver cross the ocean to meet the whims of a Moroccan princess; and Genghis Khan’s marauding army steadily approaches an unnamed city’s walls. With exuberant originality and startling vision, Tharoor cuts against the grain of literary convention, drawing equally from ancient history and current events. His world-spanning stories speak to contemporary challenges of environmental collapse and cultural appropriation, but also to the workings of legend and their timeless human truths. Whether refashioning the romances of Alexander the Great or confronting the plight of today’s refugees, Tharoor writes with distinctive insight and remarkable assurance. Swimmer Among the Stars announces the arrival of a vital, enchanting talent.

Swimming Studies

2012-07-05 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Leanne Shapton
Release : 2012-07-05
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 939/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Swimming Studies written by Leanne Shapton. This book was released on 2012-07-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award, Autobiography Swimming Studies is a brilliantly original, meditative memoir that explores the worlds of competitive and recreational swimming. From her training for the Olympic trials as a teenager to enjoying pools and beaches around the world as an adult, Leanne Shapton offers a fascinating glimpse into the private, often solitary, realm of swimming. Her spare and elegant writing reveals an intimate narrative of suburban adolescence, spent underwater in a discipline that continues to inspire Shapton’s work as an artist and author. Her illustrations throughout the book offer an intuitive perspective on the landscapes and imagery of the sport. Shapton’s emphasis is on the smaller moments of athletic pursuit rather than its triumphs. For the accomplished athlete, aspiring amateur, or habitual practicer, this remarkable work of written and visual sketches propels the reader through a beautifully personal and universally appealing exercise in reflection.

Swimmer in the Secret Sea

2010 Fiction

Author : William Kotzwinkle
Release : 2010
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 569/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Swimmer in the Secret Sea written by William Kotzwinkle. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An immediate classic when first published in Redbook in 1975, Swimmer in the Secret Sea went on to be included in Prize Stories 1975: The O. Henry Awards and then published separately as a paperback. We are proud to restore to print this popular and critically acclaimed novella about Laski and Diane, a sculptor and his wife, and their struggle to bring a new life into the world, set against the backdrop of a cold Maine winter. Author William Kotzwinkle, well-known for his many enduring children's books such as Trouble in Bugland and his novelization of the movie E.T. The Extraterrestrial, is equally adept at writing seriously and poetically about life in extremis. This story of a father-to-be and his painful love for his wife and stillborn son will stay with readers for a lifetime."--Publisher's website.

Swimmers Among the Trees

1996 History

Author : Joel Hutchins
Release : 1996
Genre : History
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Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Swimmers Among the Trees written by Joel Hutchins. This book was released on 1996. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We see SEALs on surveillance missions, overwatching the Ho Chi Minh trail, capturing enemy intelligence agents and calling in air and artillery strikes on their foe. We experience insertions into hostile territory by sea and air. We learn the various types of deadly equipment used by these elite Naval commandos in their never-ending pursuit of the enemy.

Grayson

2008 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Lynne Cox
Release : 2008
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 678/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Grayson written by Lynne Cox. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author describes how, while training for a long-distance swim off the coast of California, she encountered a baby gray whale that had become separated from its mother and had been following her instead, and relates her efforts to find the baby's mother.

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