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The Swimmers (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781789094213)
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xA claustrophobic, literary dystopia set in the hot, luscious landscape of Andalusia from the author of The Golden Key. "A richly imagined eco-gothic tale." - The Guardian
"Exquisitely realised." - The Times After the ravages of the Green Winter, Earth is a place of deep jungles and monstrous animals. The last of the human race is divided into surface dwellers and the people who live in the Upper Settlement, a ring perched at the edge of the Earth's atmosphere. Bearing witness to this divided planet is Pearl, a young techie with a thread of shuvani blood, who lives in the isolated forests of Gobari, navigating her mad mother and the strange blue light in the sky. But Pearl's stepfather promises her to a starborn called Arlo, and the world Pearl thought she knew will never be the same again. Set in the luscious landscape of Andalusia, this claustrophobic, dystopian reimagining of Wide Sargasso Sea is a literary fever dream, a blazing vision of self-destruction and transformation.
Author: Marian Womack
ISBN-10: 1789094216
ISBN-13: 9781789094213
Publisher: Titan Books (UK)
Language: English
Published: 02/23/2021
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.10w x 1.10d
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 02/15/2021
"Exquisitely realised." - The Times After the ravages of the Green Winter, Earth is a place of deep jungles and monstrous animals. The last of the human race is divided into surface dwellers and the people who live in the Upper Settlement, a ring perched at the edge of the Earth's atmosphere. Bearing witness to this divided planet is Pearl, a young techie with a thread of shuvani blood, who lives in the isolated forests of Gobari, navigating her mad mother and the strange blue light in the sky. But Pearl's stepfather promises her to a starborn called Arlo, and the world Pearl thought she knew will never be the same again. Set in the luscious landscape of Andalusia, this claustrophobic, dystopian reimagining of Wide Sargasso Sea is a literary fever dream, a blazing vision of self-destruction and transformation.
Author: Marian Womack
ISBN-10: 1789094216
ISBN-13: 9781789094213
Publisher: Titan Books (UK)
Language: English
Published: 02/23/2021
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.10w x 1.10d
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 02/15/2021
By Marian Womack
xMarian Womack, author of The Golden Key and The Swimmers, was born in Andalusia and educated in the UK. Her debut short story collection, Lost Objects (Luna Press, 2018) was shortlisted for two BSFA awards and one BFS award. She is a graduate of the Clarion Writers' Workshop, and she holds degrees from Oxford and Cambridge universities. She writes at the intersection between weird and gothic fiction, and her stories normally deal with strange landscapes, ghostly encounters, or uncanny transformations. Marian lives in Cambridge, at the edge of the Fens, with her husband, their children and two aging Spanish cats. When she is not writing she can be found working as an academic librarian, or editing books and pamphlets in her indie publishing project, Calque Press.
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