Night Swimmers
Night Swimmers "Swimming at night, to compare its slipperiness to that of a dream would be to ignore the work of staying afloat, the mesmerism brought on by the rhythm, the repetition of the…
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Night Swimmers
"Swimming at night, to compare its slipperiness to that of a dream would be to ignore the work of staying afloat, the mesmerism brought on by the rhythm, the repetition of the strokes."Beneath the surface of Lake Michigan there are vast systems: crosscutting currents, sudden drop-offs, depths of absolute darkness, shipwrecked bodies, hidden places. The narrator, a recent college graduate, and a young widow, Mrs. Peter Rock's stunning autobiographical novel begins in the '90s on the Door Peninsula of Wisconsin.
The nature of these night swims, and of his relationship to Mrs. Abel, swim together at night, making their way across miles of open water, navigating the currents and swells and carried by the rise and fall of the lake. Abel, becomes increasingly mysterious to the narrator as the summer passes, until the night that Mrs.
Abel disappears.Twenty years later, the