Simon & Schuster
January 2012
On Sale: January 10, 2012
288 pages ISBN: 1451625294 EAN: 9781451625295 Kindle: B004U7G7UG Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
From the ;remarkable storyteller ; ( San Francisco Chronicle ) and highly acclaimed author of The Wettest County in the World comes a suspenseful novel about a young American couple who win a pub on the southernmost tip of Ireland and become embroiled in local violence and intrigue. Matt Bondurant's novel The Wettest County in the World was a New York Times Editor's Pick, one of the San Francisco Chronicle 's 50 Best Books of the Year, and is being made into a major motion picture. Now, Bondurant has delivered The Night Swimmer, an atmospheric tale infused with Hitchcockian suspense. When Fred and Elly Bulkington arrive in a small town on the southern coast of Ireland from Vermont, having won a pub in a contest, they encounter a wild, strange land and the native resistance to outsiders. As Fred immerses himself in the life of a pub-owner, Elly takes the ferry out to a nearby island where sheto the disbelief of the localsis consumed by her ritual of open water ocean swimming, pushing herself to the limits. Elly becomes enmeshed in the island's troublesthe power struggles between an enigmatic goat herder and the family that has controlled the area for centurieswhile Fred's sanity wavers and their marriage begins to unravel. Filled with lush imagery of the Irish coast, crashing sea, rolling hills, and rich Irish lore, The Night Swimmer is a stunning novel that exposes the dark and unseen crevasses in the human heart.
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