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Swimming Home
''Swimming Home'' is a novel by British writer Deborah Levy, published on 10 September 2012.〔 The short novel deals with the experiences of poet Joe Jacobs, when his family vacation is interrupted by a fanatical reader.
Critical reception for the novel was generally favourable. On July 25 of 2012 the book was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and on September 11 of that same year it was shortlisted.
〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Welcome to the Man Booker Prize 2012 )〕 It was shortlisted for the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize (2013).〔(Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize 2013 )〕
== Plot ==
In the summer of 1994, the poet Joe Jacobs (Polish émigré Jozef Nowogrodzki) vacations in a summer home in the south of France with his wife Isabel, his daughter Nina, and their friends, the couple Mitchell and Laura. The tranquillity is ruined when Joe's fan Kitty Finch turns up. Her fascination with, and sexual attraction to Joe are obvious, but Isabel invites her to stay anyway. Isabel is a foreign correspondent whose work has repeatedly taken her away from her family, and who has grown to tolerate Joe's constant infidelities.
Meanwhile, Kitty's mental problems become more and more obvious, yet Nina is the only one who dares to address the issue. Towards the end it seems clear that Kitty is poised to kill herself. In the end, however, it is actually Joe who kills himself. As it turns out, Kitty's mental issues were just a reflection of his much more deep-founded depression. The story ends with a current-day confessional from the now adult Nina to her late father.
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