{"product_id":"the-long-swim-stories-paperback-softback-9781625348074","title":"The Long Swim; Stories (Paperback \/ softback) 9781625348074","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Long Swim\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eStories\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eTerese Svoboda (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781625348074\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 March 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e208 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 2 cm, 0.272 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e “Whenever I want to remember the pleasures and the possibilities of language, I read Terese Svoboda. I am awestruck by what she can make live out of flat language on paper—loose lions, knife-wielding children, black hole men and vibrant nude women, adulterers and newlyweds and orphans, the legless dog joyfully buoyant on life's ‘long swim,’ the unspeakable griefs and joys that curtain our lives like ‘the pell-mell greeny rain.’ This new collection is a lightning storm, revelatory and galvanic—I love \u003ci\u003eThe Long Swim\u003c\/i\u003e, and Svoboda’s crackling, hilarious, gorgeous prose-music.”—Karen Russell, author of \u003ci\u003eOrange World and Other Stories \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSwamplandia! \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"These stories, so precise and joyful in language and movement, don’t hesitate to dive meaningfully into heaviness and honesty. What musical and beautifully-written pieces to read aloud and savor.\"—Aimee Bender, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “[This] collection is wry, often hilarious, and just as often sad, sad, sad. What a book! I admired the big and small surprises with each new gemlike tale. This is [a] confident collection that cultivates and builds on its own idiosyncrasy of vision. It makes a big promise and fulfills it entirely.”—Robin McLean, author of \u003ci\u003ePity the Beast\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Terese Svoboda is a master of the dire and the blackly comic and a virtuoso of economy and voice, and \u003ci\u003eThe Long Swim\u003c\/i\u003e features the jaunty and the wounded who in extremis maintain their wit and lacerating self-awareness. These survivors apparently believe that all trouble should be loud and bold, generating emotional histories that are like reports from a battlefield, but they nevertheless find their way, through their diminished toolbox for negotiating trauma, toward cooperation and mutual regard.”—Jim Shepard, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Aron\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe World to Come\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eA 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Long Swim\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Cynical, irreverent, and formally daring, Svoboda’s stories in \u003ci\u003eThe Long Swim\u003c\/i\u003e are a deft exploration of womanhood and humanity. Waves of provocation and wonder toss the reader and leave them wanting more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSwordfished in Nantucket\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLoose Lion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRain People\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMr. Schmeckler\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e80s Lilies\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRead the Snow\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKnife Block\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhite Supremacist\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOxford\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHorses on My Side\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRex Rhymes with It\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWeatherproof\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDon’\u003cbr\u003et Look Now\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFortuneteller\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Cloud Painter’\u003cbr\u003es Lover\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMotherliness\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMexican Honeymoon\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Oscars\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTwo Dog High\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Last Night\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWe Are Learning How to Talk\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Long Swim\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDecorum Stinks\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMan Is Born to Trouble as the Sparks Fly Upward\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Haight\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSwanbit\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOttawa\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrangipani\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Movie Business\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChrist and Three Geese and What Happened to the Boy Afterward\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBurn the Bed\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNiagara\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLondon Boy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKosciuszko Bridge\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Stroke of Midnight\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Red and Purple Blooms\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Bulkhead\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhere Fatherhood Goes Bad\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSilent Night\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCozy Island\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCamp beside Water\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOrphan Shop\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRoof-Topped\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIn Black and White\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n","brand":"University of Massachusetts Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52633036587288,"sku":"9781625348074","price":13.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-long-swim-stories-paperback-softback-9781625348074","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}