Splash! : great writing about swimming / edited with an introduction by Laurel Blossom ; preface by George Plimpton.

Other author Blossom, Laurel.
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoHopewell, N.J. : Ecco Press, ©1996.
Descriptionx, 254 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Swimming--Miscellanea.

SeriesEcco companions series
Ecco companions. ^A377725
Contents October 1968, Mexico City / Carol Anshaw -- First lesson / Philip Booth -- The women / Ray Bradbury -- The mundanity of excellence / Daniel Chambliss -- The swimmer / John Cheever -- On being much better than most and yet not quite good enough / John Ciardi -- Wet / Laurie Colwin -- Coming back to America / James Dickey -- from Swimmers beneath the bright / M. Coleman Easton -- The celebration / David Allan Evans -- from The boys on the rock / John Fox -- The night of the big, big minute / Dawn Fraser with Harry Gordon -- A swimming lesson / Jewelle Gomez -- from The nine lives of Billy Rose / Polly Rose Gottlieb
Contents Letter, August 15, 1925 / Richard Halliburton -- The swimming pool / Jonathan Holden -- Tarry, delight ... / A.E. Housman -- Cold logic / Barney Hutchinson -- from How to swim / Annette Kellerman -- Lone bather / A.M. Klein -- 400-meter freestyle / Maxine Kumin -- Through the tunnel / Doris Lessing -- from Water dancer / Jenifer Levin -- The Kanaka surf / Jack London -- Tarantulas on the lifebuoy / Thomas Lux -- Learning to swim at forty-five / Colleen J. McElroy -- Bold strokes / Walter Russell Mead -- Swimming lessons / Rohinton Misty -- Water / R. Bruce Moody -- The good humor man / Rebecca Morris --
Contents Mind over water / Diana Nyad -- The motel / Sharon Olds -- The swimmer / Sharon Olds -- The swimmer / Mary Oliver -- Channel swimming association report / Dick Powell -- from Deep water / Don Schollander with Duke Savage -- The nude swim / Anne Sexton -- Swimming lesson / Charlotte Watson Sherman -- from In every woman's life / Alix Kates Shulman -- Not waving but drowning / Stevie Smith -- Water / Maureen Stanton -- Up late / Linda Svendsen -- Swimming Chenango Lake / Charles Tomlinson -- Damp in the afternoon / Calvin Trillin -- Lifeguard / John Updike -- Disappearing / Monica Wood.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [251]-254).
LCCN 95046562
ISBN0880014490 (alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks GV837 .S818 1996 ✔ Available Place Hold