The Swimmers: A novel
(OverDrive Listen)

Julie Otsuka. (2022). The Swimmers: A novel. Unabridged Books on Tape.

Julie Otsuka. 2022. The Swimmers: A Novel. Books on Tape.

Julie Otsuka, The Swimmers: A Novel. Books on Tape, 2022.

Julie Otsuka. The Swimmers: A Novel. Unabridged Books on Tape, 2022.

OverDrive Product Record

sortTitle

Swimmers A novel

crossRefId

6328971

images

• cover:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/1191-1/{FE6D4BED-1A88-44C8-BC19-74DBD18F0020}Img100.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• thumbnail:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/1191-1/{FE6D4BED-1A88-44C8-BC19-74DBD18F0020}Img200.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover150Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/1191-1/FE6/D4B/ED/{FE6D4BED-1A88-44C8-BC19-74DBD18F0020}Img150.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover300Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/1191-1/FE6/D4B/ED/{FE6D4BED-1A88-44C8-BC19-74DBD18F0020}Img400.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg

formats

1. • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9780593552049
   • name: OverDrive MP3 Audiobook
   • id: audiobook-mp3
2. • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9780593552049
   • name: OverDrive Listen
   • id: audiobook-overdrive

subtitle

A novel

mediaType

Audiobook

primaryCreator

• role: Author
• name: Julie Otsuka

id

FE6D4BED-1A88-44C8-BC19-74DBD18F0020

title

The Swimmers

starRating

3.4

contentDetails

1. • href: https://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=426&titleID=6328971
   • type: text/html
   • account:
     • name: Wake County Public Libraries (NC)
     • id: 1893

OverDrive MetaData

isPublicDomain

False

formats

1. • duration: 04:06:01
   • fileName: TheSwimmers_9780593552032_6328971
   • partCount: 0
   • fileSize: 118089977
   • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9780593552049
   • name: OverDrive Listen
   • isReadAlong: False
   • id: audiobook-overdrive
   • onSaleDate: 2/22/2022
   • samples:
     1. • source: From the book
        • formatType: audiobook-overdrive
        • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=fe6d4bed-1a88-44c8-bc19-74dbd18f0020&.epub-sample.overdrive.com

creators

1. • role: Author
   • fileAs: Otsuka, Julie
   • bioText: JULIE OTSUKA was born and raised in California. She is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and her first novel, When the Emperor Was Divine won the 2003 Asian American Literary Award and the 2003 American Library Association's Alex Award. Her second novel, The Buddha in the Attic, was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2011 and won the 2012 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the 2011 Langum Prize in American Historical Fiction. The Buddha in the Attic was an international best seller and the winner of the prestigious Prix Femina Étranger in 2012, and the Albatros Literaturpreis in 2013. She lives in New York City.
      
   • name: Julie Otsuka
2. • role: Narrator
   • fileAs: Kato-Kiriyama, Traci
   • name: Traci Kato-Kiriyama

imprint

Random House Audio

publishDate

2022-02-22T00:00:00Z

edition

Unabridged

isOwnedByCollections

True

title

The Swimmers

fullDescription

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE WINNER • From the award-winning author of The Buddha in the Attic and When the Emperor Was Divine comes a novel that "starts as a catalogue of spoken and unspoken rules for swimmers at an aquatic center but unfolds into a powerful story of a mother’s dementia and her daughter’s love" (The Washington Post).
The swimmers are unknown to one another except through their private routines (slow lane, medium lane, fast lane) and the solace each takes in their morning or afternoon laps. But when a crack appears at the bottom of the pool, they are cast out into an unforgiving world without comfort or relief.
 
One of these swimmers is Alice, who is slowly losing her memory. For Alice, the pool was a final stand against the darkness of her encroaching dementia. Without the fellowship of other swimmers and the routine of her daily laps she is plunged into dislocation and chaos, swept into memories of her childhood and the Japanese American incarceration camp in which she spent the war. Alice's estranged daughter, reentering her mother's life too late, witnesses her stark and devastating decline.

popularity

2062

links

• self:
  • href: https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/L1BLQAAAA2a/products/fe6d4bed-1a88-44c8-bc19-74dbd18f0020/metadata
  • type: application/vnd.overdrive.api+json
• shareInLibby:
  • href: https://link.overdrive.com/share?q=i5JgAAWUhr4
  • type: text/HTML

id

fe6d4bed-1a88-44c8-bc19-74dbd18f0020

starRating

3.3

images

• cover:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/1191-1/{FE6D4BED-1A88-44C8-BC19-74DBD18F0020}Img100.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• thumbnail:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/1191-1/{FE6D4BED-1A88-44C8-BC19-74DBD18F0020}Img200.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover150Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/1191-1/FE6/D4B/ED/{FE6D4BED-1A88-44C8-BC19-74DBD18F0020}Img150.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover300Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/1191-1/FE6/D4B/ED/{FE6D4BED-1A88-44C8-BC19-74DBD18F0020}Img400.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg

isPublicPerformanceAllowed

False

languages

1. • code: en
   • name: English

subjects

1. • value: Fiction
2. • value: Literature

publishDateText

02/22/2022

mediaType

Audiobook

shortDescription

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE WINNER • From the award-winning author of The Buddha in the Attic and When the Emperor Was Divine comes a novel that "starts as a catalogue of spoken and unspoken rules for swimmers at an aquatic center but unfolds into a powerful story of a mother’s dementia and her daughter’s love" (The Washington Post).
The swimmers are unknown to one another except through their private routines (slow lane, medium lane, fast lane) and the solace each takes in their morning or afternoon laps. But when a crack appears at the bottom of the pool, they are cast out into an unforgiving world without comfort or relief.
 
One of these swimmers is Alice, who is slowly losing her memory. For Alice, the pool was a final stand against the darkness of her encroaching dementia. Without the fellowship of other swimmers and the routine of her daily laps she is plunged into...

sortTitle

Swimmers A novel

crossRefId

6328971

classifications

awards

1. • source: Notable Books Council
   • value: Notable Books for Adults

subtitle

A novel

publisher

Books on Tape

bisacCodes

1. • code: FIC044000
   • description: Fiction / Contemporary Women
2. • code: FIC045000
   • description: Fiction / Family Life / General
3. • code: FIC071000
   • description: Fiction / Friendship