Swimming in Paris

A Life in Three Stories

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<b>A Natalie Portman Book Club Pick<br><br>“Sinewy, tough, sharp . . . Even though Schneck works at a scale that is deliberately small, insistently concrete, and extremely lean, her writing somehow exposes whole vistas of the female experience.” —<b>Katie Roiphe, <i>The Atlantic</i></b><br><br>From the award-winning and bestselling French author Colombe Schneck, a woman’s personal journey through abortion, sex, friendship, love, and swimming<br><br><i>At fifty years old, while taking swimming lessons, I finally realized that my body was not actually as incompetent as I’d thought. My physical gestures had been, until then, small, worried, tense. In swimming I learned to extend them. I saw male bodies swimming beside me, and I swam past them, I was delighted, my breasts got smaller, my uterus stopped working. My body, by showing me who I was, allowed me to become fully myself.<br><br></i>In <i>Seventeen, Friendship, and Swimming</i>, Colombe Schneck orchestrates a coming-of-age in three movements. Beautiful, masterfully controlled, yet filled with pathos, they invite the reader into a decades-long evolution of sexuality, bodily autonomy, friendship, and loss.<i><br><br></i>Schneck’s prose maintains an unwavering intimacy, whether conjuring a teenage abortion in the midst of a privileged Parisian upbringing, the nuance of a long friendship, or a midlife romance. <i>Swimming in Paris</i> is an immersive, propulsive triptych—fundamentally human in its tender concern for every messy and glorious reality of the body, and deeply wise in its understanding of both desire and of letting go.<i><br></i></b>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780593833933

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

200 x 132 x 18 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2025

Verlag / Hersteller

Random House