Swimming (English)

An exuberant romp of a debut novel, SWIMMING is swept along by the irreverent and foul-mouthed narrative voice of Pip Ash, a Midwestern girl born in the 1960s who learns to leave behind her dysfunctional childhood--neurotic mother, drug addict sister, absent father, and the harshness of her strict Catholic upbringing--by throwing herself body and soul into competitive swimming, an obsessive pursuit the eventually takes her all the way to the Olympics in Barcelona. Jaunty, crazed, full of delirious tangents, and brilliant verbal acrobatics, SWIMMING is an exhilarating read, as exuberant as a cannonball into the deep end. minimize