{"product_id":"shapton-leanne-swimming-studies","title":"Shapton, Leanne - Swimming Studies","description":"Intimate with chlorinated space; weightless yet limited; closed off to taste,\nsound, and most sight: this is a swimmer’s state. When ten-year-old Leanne\nShapton joins a swim team, she finds an affinity for its rhythms – and spends\nyears training, making it to the Olympic trials twice.\nSwimming Studies reflects on her time immersed in a world of rigour and\ndetermination, routine and competition. Vivid details of a life spent largely\nunderwater emerge: adolescence in suburban Canada, dawn risings for morning\npractice, bus rides with teammates, a growing collection of swimsuits,\ndips in lakes and oceans. When she trades athletic pursuits for artistic ones,\nthe metrics of moving through water endure.\nIn elegant, spare writing, Shapton renders swimming as a mode of experiencing\ntime, movement, and perspective, capable of shaping our lives in every\nenvironment. The result is captivating and profound: a modern classic of sport\nwriting and memoir from a singular talent.\n\nA brilliantly original, meditative memoir, a ‘fusion of\ncool, clear-eyed prose and watercolours, photographs\nand portraits’ (Time Out New York), that explores the\nworld of swimming","brand":"Daunt Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback Book","offer_id":50224122134806,"sku":"RMX-49544","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0839\/7750\/2998\/files\/a4c387510b268df0a05a17d9190afc06.jpg?v=1752063235","url":"https:\/\/resident-music-uk.myshopify.com\/products\/shapton-leanne-swimming-studies","provider":"Resident Music UK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}