New York, NY, Poseidon Press, 1982. First edition. 8vo. Light gray cloth over dark gray boards, with dark gray lettering on spine, matching dark gray endpapers, pictorial dust jacket, 189 pp. Graham Swift writes movingly of the enclosed worlds in which we confine our lives, of hotel rooms and marriage beds of claustrophobic relationships, of ghosts from the past which hold the present and future hostage and he also presents the hopeful images of escape and redemption. Wrinkle on back of dust jacket, but this is a new, unread book, in near fine dust jacket, protected by a mylar cover.

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Title

Learning to Swim and Other Stories

Publisher

Poseidon Press, New York, NY

Publication Date

1982

Language

English

ISBN 10

0671546139

ISBN 13

9780671546137

Binding

Quarter Cloth

Edition

First Edition

Condition

New

Dust Jacket Condition

Near Fine

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A collection of short stories offers an incisive book behind the facades of human relationships to expose the illusion, subterfuge, and enigma of everyday life

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