The Swimmers
| Title | The Swimmers |
| Year for Search | 2020 |
| Authors | Womack, Marian(b. 1975) |
| Pagination | 343 pp. |
| Date Published | 2020 |
| Publisher | Titan Books |
| Place Published | London |
| ISBN Number | 978-1-78093213 |
| Keywords | English author, Female author, Spanish author |
| Annotation | A climate change dystopia novel is set in a future Andalusia, where the author was born, with rapidly evolving plants and animals. The remaining humans are divided between those of Earth, which has a complex social fabric, and those in the Upper Settlement, a ring at the edge of Earth’s, with a more egalitarian social structure. Retelling of Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), which is, of course, related to Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre (1847), with reference to Wide Sargasso Sea throughout the text. The female author was born María de los Ángeles Via Rivera in Cádiz, Spain and lives in Spain and England and writes in both in English and Spanish. Womack is her married name. |
| Holding Institutions | PSt |
| Author Note | The female author was born María de los Ángeles Via Rivera in Cádiz, Spain and lives in Spain and England and writes in both in English and Spanish. Womack is her married name. |
| Full Text | 2021 Womack, Marian (b. 1975). The Swimmers. London: Titan Books. 343 pp. PSt A climate change dystopia novel is set in a future Andalusia, where the author was born, with rapidly evolving plants and animals. The remaining humans are divided between those of Earth, which has a complex social fabric, and those in the Upper Settlement, a ring at the edge of Earth’s, with a more egalitarian social structure. Retelling of Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), which is, of course, related to Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre (1847), with reference to Wide Sargasso Sea throughout the text. The female author was born María de los Ángeles Via Rivera in Cádiz, Spain and lives in Spain and England and writes in both in English and Spanish. Womack is her married name. |
