The long swim
Call Number
- FICTION SVOB (CEN)
Publication Information
Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2024]
Physical Description
viii, 196 pages ; 22 cm
Uniform Title
Summary
"A runaway circus lion haunts a small town where two lovers risk more than their respective marriages. A junket to Cuba and an ambassador's dalliance with a niece hide dark secrets and political revolution. "I've always had a knife," says the unstable stepson to his parents. Inventive, dark, and absurd, the stories in The Long Swim capture Terese Svoboda's clear-eyed, wry angle on the world: a place of violence and uncertainty but also wild beauty, adventure, and love both lasting and ephemeral. Her characters strive for escape-through romance, travel, or more self-destructive pursuits-and collide with the constraints of family and home, their longing for freedom and autonomy often at odds with the desire for safety and harmony. Cynical, irreverent, and formally daring, Svoboda's stories in The Long Swim are a deft exploration of womanhood and humanity. Waves of provocation and wonder toss the reader and leave them wanting more"--
Contents
- Swordfished in Nantucket
- Loose lion
- Rain people
- Mr. Schmeckler
- 80s lilies
- Read the snow
- Knife block
- White supremacist
- Oxford
- Horses on my side
- Rex rhymes with it
- Weatherproof
- Don't look now
- Fortuneteller
- The cloud painter's lover
- Motherliness
- Mexican honeymoon
- The Oscars
- Two dog high
- The last night
- We are learning how to talk
- The long swim
- Decorum stinks
- Man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward
- The Haight
- Swanbit
- Ottawa
- Frangipani
- The movie business
- Christ and three geese and what happened to the boy afterward
- Burn the bed
- Niagara
- London boy
- Kosciuszko Bridge
- The stroke of midnight
- The red and purple blooms
- The bulkhead
- Where fatherhood goes bad
- Silent night
- Cozy island
- Camp beside water
- Orphan shop
- Roof-topped
- In black and white.