| #207183 in Books | 2016-05-24 | 2016-05-24 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.20 x.90 x5.50l,.94 | File type: PDF | 336 pages||8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.| Water and Watercolors|By Katy Gilmore|"Swimming Studies" is Shapton's memoir of her life as young swimmer training for Olympic trials, her continued fascination with water and bodies in water, and her eventual turn toward art. She's brave and honest, and her descriptions transport - you feel the squeeze of a bathing cap, the atmosphere in a bus full of young athletes on their w|||“Swimming Studies sets out, through a fusion of words and pictures, to capture a bittersweet part of the writer's past as completely as a scent trapped in a bottle. The book is beautiful as both a story and an object. It's about being
Swimming Studies is a collection of autobiographical sketches that explore the worlds of competitive and recreational swimming. From her training for the Olympic trials as a teenager, to meditative swims in pools and oceans as an adult, Leanne Shapton contemplates the sport that has shaped her life. Her spare and elegant writing reveals an intimate narrative of suburban adolescence, spent underwater in a discipline that continues to inspire Shapton's work as ...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Swimming Studies | Leanne Shapton. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
