News of the Swimmer Reaches Shore

At once a travel book, autobiographical novel and free-style historical survey, "News of the Swimmer Reaches the Shore" begins with its narrator suspended in the salty, buoyant waters of the Mediterranean. Not only is the book a paean to the south of France, it is a history of things that explode under water, taking the reader by way of the trenches of World War One and the Rainbow Warrior bombing to the writer's experiences of diving off Menton. Adrift on an ocean of art history, literature and music, the book introduces a cast of underwater characters including Jacques Cousteau, Dominique Prieur, Henri Matisse and the naked river-swimming Mother Aubert, a 19th century nun who presents something of a role-model for the narrator as he negotiates various streams of thought.

ISBN 1857548531   DEWEY 821 ISBN13 9781857548532 (What's this?)   DEWEY edition DC22 Publisher Carcanet Press Ltd   Published in Manchester Imprint Lives and Letters   Height (mm) 216 Format Paperback   Width (mm) 135 Publication date 29 Mar 2007   Academic level General

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