{"product_id":"9781250290670","title":"Swimming Studies","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBack in print, a “fusion of cool, clear-eyed prose and watercolors, photographs and painted portraits” (Time Out New York) by celebrated author and artist Leanne Shapton, on a sport that has shaped her life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntimate with chlorinated space; weightless yet limited; closed off to taste, sound, and most sight; acutely aware of the clock: this is a swimmer’s state. When ten-year-old Leanne Shapton joins an Ontario township swim team with her brother, she finds an affinity for its rhythms―and spends years training, making it to the Olympic trials twice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSwimming Studies reflects on her time immersed in a world of rigor and determination, routine and competition, pairing together contemplative essays and paintings. Vivid details of an aquatic life appear: adolescence in suburban Canada, dawn risings for morning practice, bus rides with teammates, a growing collection of swimsuits, dips in lakes and oceans. When she trades athletic pursuits for artistic ones, the metrics of moving through water endure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn these elegant and potent meditations, Shapton renders swimming as a mode of experiencing time, movement, and perspective, capable of shaping our lives in every environment.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":67727561851113,"sku":"9781250290670","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0406\/5548\/7129\/files\/9781250290670.jpg?v=1792514537","url":"https:\/\/redstickreads.com\/products\/9781250290670","provider":"Red Stick Reads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}