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A Natalie Portman Book Club Pick
Sinewy, tough, sharp . . . Even though Schneck works at a scale that is deliberately small, insistently concrete, and extremely lean, her writing somehow exposes whole vistas of the female experience. Katie Roiphe, The Atlantic
From the award-winning and bestselling French author Colombe Schneck, a womans personal journey through abortion, sex, friendship, love, and swimming
At fty years old, while taking swimming lessons, I nally realized that my body was not actually as incompetent as Id thought. My physical gestures had been, until then, small, worried, tense. In swimming I learned to extend them. I saw male bodies swimming beside me, and I swam past them, I was delighted, my breasts got smaller, my uterus stopped working. My body, by showing me who I was, allowed me to become fully myself.
In Seventeen, Friendship, and Swimming, Colombe Schneck orchestrates a coming-of-age in three movements. Beautiful, masterfully controlled, yet lled with pathos, they invite the reader into a decades-long evolution of sexuality, bodily autonomy, friendship, and loss.
Schnecks prose maintains an unwavering intimacy, whether conjuring a teenage abortion in the midst of a privileged Parisian upbringing, the nuance of a long friendship, or a midlife romance. Swimming in Paris is an immersive, propulsive triptychfundamentally human in its tender concern for every messy and glorious reality of the body, and deeply wise in its understanding of both desire and of letting go.
Author: Colombe Schneck
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 05/13/2025
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780593833933
Language: English
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