The diving pool
three novellas
1st ed.
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Author
Contributions
- Snyder, Stephen, 1957- - Contributor
Publication
2008 - Harvill Seeker, London, England
Language
English
Word Count
41,000 words, Guess
Page Count
164 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivedivingpoolthreen0000ogaw
- ISBN-101846551722
- ISBN-101846552176
- ISBN-139781846551727
- ISBN-139781846552175
and 4 more
- OCLC Control Number271721157
- Better World Books9781846551727
- Better World Books9781846552175
- Open LibraryOL32094171M
Classifications
- DDC895.6/35
- LCCPL858.G37 S3513 2008
- LCCPL858.G37
Description
"From Akutagawa award-winning author Yoko Ogawa comes a haunting trio of novellas about love, fertility, obsession, and how even the most innocent gestures may contain a hairline crack of cruel intent." "A lonely teenage girl falls in love with her foster brother as she watches him leap from a high diving board into a pool - a peculiar infatuation that sends unexpected ripples through her life." "A young woman records the daily moods of her pregnant sister in a diary, taking meticulous note of a pregnancy that may or may not be a hallucination - but whose hallucination is it, hers or her sister's?" "A woman nostalgically visits her old college dormitory on the outskirts of Tokyo, a boarding house run by a mysterious triple amputee with one leg. Hauntingly spare, beautiful, and twisted, The Diving Pool is a disquieting and at times darkly humorous collection of novellas about normal people who suddenly discover their own dark possibilities."--Jacket.
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