The swimmers
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The swimmers
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The work The swimmers represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Neenah Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
- Label
- The swimmers
- Statement of responsibility
- Julie Otsuka
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "The swimmers are unknown to each other except through their private routines (slow lane, fast lane), and the solace each takes in their morning or afternoon laps. But when a crack appears at the bottom of the pool, they are cast out into an unforgiving world. One of these swimmers is Alice, who is slowly losing her memory. For Alice, the pool was a final stand against the darkness of her encroaching dementia. Without the fellowship of other swimmers and the routine of her daily laps she is plunged into dislocation and chaos, swept into memories of her childhood and the Japanese American incarceration camp in which she spent the war. Alice's estranged daughter, reentering her mother's life too late, witnesses her devastating decline"--
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- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3615.T88
- LC item number
- S95 2022
- Literary form
- fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Target audience
- adult
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