The night swimmers
(Book)
"Beneath the surface of Lake Michigan there are vast systems: crosscutting currents, sudden drop-offs, depths of absolute darkness, shipwrecked bodies, hidden places. Peter Rock's stunning auto-biographical novel begins in the 90s on the Door Peninsula of Wisconsin, where the narrator, a man recently graduated from college, and a young widow, Mrs. Abel, swim together at night, making their way across miles of open water, navigating the currents and swells, the rise and fall of the lake. The nature of these night swims, and of his relationship to Mrs. Abel, becomes increasingly mysterious to the narrator as the summer passes, until the night that Mrs. Abel disappears. Twenty years later, the narrator--now married with two daughters--tries to understand that time, it's obsessions and dreams. Digging into old notebooks and letters, as well as clippings he's preserved on the "psychic photography" of Ted Serios and scribbled quotations from Rilke and Chekhov, the narrator rebuilds a world he's lost--those searching and uncertain drives, his vague wish to be a writer. He also searches for clues to the fate of Mrs. Abel, and begins once again to swim distances in dark water"--
Rock, P. (2019). The night swimmers. New York, NY, Soho Press Inc.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Rock, Peter, 1967-. 2019. The Night Swimmers. New York, NY, Soho Press Inc.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Rock, Peter, 1967-, The Night Swimmers. New York, NY, Soho Press Inc, 2019.
MLA Citation (style guide)Rock, Peter. The Night Swimmers. New York, NY, Soho Press Inc, 2019.
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264 | 1 | |a New York, NY :|b Soho Press Inc.,|c [2019] | |
300 | |a 264 pages :|b illustrations (some color), color map ;|c 22 cm | ||
336 | |a text|b txt|2 rdacontent | ||
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500 | |a "A novel"--Jacket. | ||
500 | |a Illustrations and map on end papers. | ||
504 | |a Includes bibliographical references. | ||
520 | |a "Beneath the surface of Lake Michigan there are vast systems: crosscutting currents, sudden drop-offs, depths of absolute darkness, shipwrecked bodies, hidden places. Peter Rock's stunning auto-biographical novel begins in the 90s on the Door Peninsula of Wisconsin, where the narrator, a man recently graduated from college, and a young widow, Mrs. Abel, swim together at night, making their way across miles of open water, navigating the currents and swells, the rise and fall of the lake. The nature of these night swims, and of his relationship to Mrs. Abel, becomes increasingly mysterious to the narrator as the summer passes, until the night that Mrs. Abel disappears. Twenty years later, the narrator--now married with two daughters--tries to understand that time, it's obsessions and dreams. Digging into old notebooks and letters, as well as clippings he's preserved on the "psychic photography" of Ted Serios and scribbled quotations from Rilke and Chekhov, the narrator rebuilds a world he's lost--those searching and uncertain drives, his vague wish to be a writer. He also searches for clues to the fate of Mrs. Abel, and begins once again to swim distances in dark water"--|c Provided by publisher. | ||
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