—David Vann, author of Legend of a Suicide and Bright Air Black
“Claire Fuller’s acrobatic new novel, about a family who has failed each other, inverts our expectations of narrative time to an astonishing effect: our experience of grasping for truth about those who have left is just as pained and urgent as her characters’. Fuller’s sentences are condensed maps of the human process, unfolding in patterns we immediately recognize.”
—Kathleen Alcott, author of Infinite Home
“Swimming Lessons continues Claire Fuller’s mastery of beautiful language and heartbreaking imagery, which lays bare the stories of infidelities, lies, revivals of love and then demise of those loves. The women of this novel fight for their very souls, and their stories unfurl like flags of independence appearing to wave from Fuller’s landscape of great books and art and hope.”
—Susan Straight, author of Between Heaven and Here
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CLAIRE FULLER’s debut novel, Our Endless Numbered Days, was published by Tin House in 2015. It went on to win the Desmond Elliott Prize in the UK, was a finalist for the ABA Indies Choice Award, and was chosen as an Indie Next pick and a Goodreads Debut Spotlight.
Copyright © 2017 Claire Fuller
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Published by Tin House Books, Portland, Oregon and
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Distributed by W. W. Norton and Company.
The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:
Names: Fuller, Claire, author.
Title: Swimming lessons / by Claire Fuller.
Description: First U.S. edition. | Portland, OR : Tin House Books, 2017.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016047393 (print) | LCCN 2016050228 (ebook) |
ISBN 9781941040515 (hardcover : acid-free paper) |
ISBN 9781941040522 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Domestic fiction. | GSAFD: Mystery fiction.
Classification: LCC PR6106.U45 S95 2017 (print) | LCC PR6106.U45
(ebook) |
DDC 823/.92--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016047393
First US Edition
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