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Turning
A Swimming Memoir
Taschenbuch von Jessica J. Lee
Sprache: Englisch

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Jessica J. Lee - Canadian, Chinese and British - swims through all four seasons. This is the story of a beautiful obsession: of the thrill of a still, turquoise lake, of cracking the ice before submerging, of floating under blue skies, of cool, fresh, spring swimming - of facing past fears of near drowning and of breaking free.

'Lee is intelligent and controlled, her writing clean and accurate . . . Turning is many things: a snapshot of Berlin seen through the prism of its lakes; the story of a broken and healing heart; a contemplation of identity; a coming-of-age story' Katharine Norbury, Observer

'Bold and brave, she approaches her watery pilgrimage with a minimum amount of fuss . . . Lee writes like a siren, her silken prose blending with softly worn scholarship to enchanting effect' Literary Review

'Turning is filled with a wonderful melancholy as she swims through lakes laden with dark histories . . . Her clear, calm writing encompasses the truth and terror of open-water swimming: the conjunction of human and natural history that it represents as we swimmers hang there in the water, caught between elements, between our land-bound lives stationed in front of liminal screens and the infinite deep that lies beyond' Philip Hoare

Jessica J. Lee - Canadian, Chinese and British - swims through all four seasons. This is the story of a beautiful obsession: of the thrill of a still, turquoise lake, of cracking the ice before submerging, of floating under blue skies, of cool, fresh, spring swimming - of facing past fears of near drowning and of breaking free.

'Lee is intelligent and controlled, her writing clean and accurate . . . Turning is many things: a snapshot of Berlin seen through the prism of its lakes; the story of a broken and healing heart; a contemplation of identity; a coming-of-age story' Katharine Norbury, Observer

'Bold and brave, she approaches her watery pilgrimage with a minimum amount of fuss . . . Lee writes like a siren, her silken prose blending with softly worn scholarship to enchanting effect' Literary Review

'Turning is filled with a wonderful melancholy as she swims through lakes laden with dark histories . . . Her clear, calm writing encompasses the truth and terror of open-water swimming: the conjunction of human and natural history that it represents as we swimmers hang there in the water, caught between elements, between our land-bound lives stationed in front of liminal screens and the infinite deep that lies beyond' Philip Hoare

Über den Autor
Jessica J. Lee is a British-Canadian-Taiwanese author, environmental historian, and winner of the RBC Taylor Prize Emerging Author Award. She received a doctorate in environmental history and aesthetics in 2016, and her first book, Turning, was published in 2017. Jessica is the founding editor of The Willowherb Review. She lives in Berlin.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Genre: Biographien
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Übersetzungstitel: Mein Jahr im Wasser
Inhalt: XVII
286 S.
ISBN-13: 9780349008332
ISBN-10: 0349008337
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 549556
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Lee, Jessica J.
Hersteller: Little, Brown Book Group
Virago Press
Maße: 198 x 123 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Jessica J. Lee
Erscheinungsdatum: 07.06.2018
Gewicht: 0,214 kg
Artikel-ID: 111061933
Über den Autor
Jessica J. Lee is a British-Canadian-Taiwanese author, environmental historian, and winner of the RBC Taylor Prize Emerging Author Award. She received a doctorate in environmental history and aesthetics in 2016, and her first book, Turning, was published in 2017. Jessica is the founding editor of The Willowherb Review. She lives in Berlin.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Genre: Biographien
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Übersetzungstitel: Mein Jahr im Wasser
Inhalt: XVII
286 S.
ISBN-13: 9780349008332
ISBN-10: 0349008337
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 549556
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Lee, Jessica J.
Hersteller: Little, Brown Book Group
Virago Press
Maße: 198 x 123 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Jessica J. Lee
Erscheinungsdatum: 07.06.2018
Gewicht: 0,214 kg
Artikel-ID: 111061933
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