Swimming Studies

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography Named a Best Book of the Year by The Observer Back 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. Intimate 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 Lea