Swimming Studies by Shapton, Leanne

Swimming Studies (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781250290670)

Vendor: Leanne Shapton
Product type: Books
Format: Paperback
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Swimming Studies by Shapton, Leanne

Swimming Studies

$20.00
Swimming Studies by Shapton, Leanne

Swimming Studies

$20.00
Format: Paperback
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Swimming Studies is a collection of autobiographical sketches that explore the worlds of competitive and recreational swimming. From her training for the Olympic trials as a teenager, to meditative swims in pools and oceans as an adult, Leanne Shapton contemplates the sport that has shaped her life. 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, while her illustrations offer a new perspective on the landscapes and imagery of swimming. Shapton emphasizes the private, often solitary moments of athletic pursuit rather than its triumphs. This remarkable work of written and visual pieces propels the reader through a beautifully personal exercise in reflection.

Author: Leanne Shapton
ISBN-10: 1250290678
ISBN-13: 9781250290670
Publisher: Picador USA
Language: English
Published: 03/25/2025
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.50w x 1.00d
By Leanne Shapton
By Leanne Shapton
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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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