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

Winner of the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award, Autobiography Swimming Studies ?is a brilliantly?original, meditative memoir that explores the worlds of competitive?and recreational swimming. From her training for the Olympic trials as a?teenager to?enjoying pools and...

Swimming Studies is a collection of autobiographical sketches that explore the worlds of competitive and recreational swimming. From her training for the Olympic trials as a teenager, to meditative swims in pools and oceans as an adult, Leanne Shapton contemplates the sport that...

