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Swimming in the Ocean
By Catherine Jenkins
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Swimming In The Ocean is about tossing secrets into the water to become free from the bonds of silence and unnamed tensions that often hold us back from embracing our sometimes uncomfortable and cumbersome selves. Poet and freelance editor and writer Catherine Jenkins' début novel boldly celebrates the resilience and complexity of human emotion and spirit in sleek and honest poetic prose.
We travel with the narrator as she floats through memories and dreams of her past lovers, dealing with AIDS, suicide and personal secrets kept deep beneath the surface. Wading through the past, she moves into a strong reflective present, poised to dive once again, this time into the cold uncertainty of the future with renewed self-assurance and self-acceptance. Each segment of the novel folds over the next, slowly building a complex emotional whole.
The spare, direct style of Swimming In The Ocean will be likened to that of such diverse writers as Elizabeth Smart and Jeanette Winterson. It is a daring novel that vividly captures the tensions between sexual manipulation, romantic fantasy, abuse and intimacy, and the relentless and rewarding drama of self-discovery.
Praise for Swimming In The Ocean:
"This is a short, well-crafted book that dives into life beneath the sea and rises to catch the heady air of human reality as smoothly as a dolphin. It draws in the reader with the inexorable force of a well-placed net ... Swimming In The Ocean is the best myth associated with sexual desire to come from beneath the waves since Venus arose from the deep."
— FFWD
"This is a swift and elegant novel ... one of the most readable tales of a woman's personal crises to come along in some time, and Jenkins has made a distinguished foray into the writing of fiction."
— amazon.ca
"Jenkins demonstrates a keen descriptive eye."
— The Globe and Mail
"The emotional baldness and immediacy of Jenkins' prose is moving ... there is a voyeuristic page-turning quality."
— Quill & Quire
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Fiction ·
Canada $19.95 · US $15.95 · UK £8.95 ·
Trade paperback
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1-894663-17-9
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164 pages
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6" x 9 "
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Insomniac Press
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