$24.36
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
9 April 2018
Summary
Turning: A Year of Swimming, Healing, and Self-Discovery
‘The water slips over me like cool silk. The intimacy of touch uninhibited, rising around my legs, over my waist, up to my collarbone. When I throw back my head and relax, the lake runs into my ears. The sound of it is a muffled roar, the vibration of the body amplified by water, every sound felt as if in slow motion …’ Summer swimming … but Jessica Lee - Canadian, Chinese and British - swims through all four seasons and espec…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349008332 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349008337 |
| Author: | Jessica J. Lee |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 9 April 2018 |
| Weight: | 215g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 131mm x 20mm |
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I loved this beautiful book. It’s an attentive meditation on the pleasures and lessons of swimming in lakes, particularly in winter. Jessica Lee wears her bravery lightly and shares her knowledge with generosity. I recommend for outdoor swimmers or those who would like to be
A sublime, philosophical slipping into the deep. Her book, Turning, is filled with a wonderful melancholy as she swims through lakes laden with dark histories - New StatesmanLee is intelligent and controlled, her writing clean and accurate … Turning is many things: a snapshot of Berlin seen through the prism of its lakes; the story of a broken and healing heart; a contemplation of identity; a coming-of-age story - ObserverThe redemptive power of these wild landscapes, the changes in the water, and in Jessica, combine to create an inspiring story - Daily TelegraphAbout The Author
Jessica J. Lee
Jessica J. Lee is a British-Canadian-Taiwanese author, environmental historian, and winner of the RBC Taylor Prize Emerging Author Award. She received a doctorate in environmental history and aesthetics in 2016, and her first book, Turning, was published in 2017. Jessica is the founding editor of The Willowherb Review. She lives in Berlin.
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