Matt Bondurant
From the â€œremarkable storytellerâ€ ( ,San Francisco Chronicle, ) and highly acclaimed author of ,The Wettest County in the World, comes a suspenseful novel about a young American couple who win a pub on the southernmost tip of Ireland and become embroiled in local violence and intrigue. ,Matt Bondurantâ€™s novel ,The Wettest County in the World, was a ,New York Times , Editorâ€™s Pick, one of the ,San Francisco Chronicle, â€™s 50 Best Books of the Year, and is being made into a major motion picture. Now, Bondurant has delivered ,The Night Swimmer,, an atmospheric tale infused with Hitchcockian suspense., When Fred and Elly Bulkington arrive in a small town on the southern coast of Ireland from Vermont, having won a pub in a contest, they encounter a wild, strange land and the native resistance to outsiders. As Fred immerses himself in the life of a pub-owner, Elly takes the ferry out to a nearby island where sheâ€”to the disbelief of the localsâ€”is consumed by her ritual of open water ocean swimming, pushing herself to the limits. Elly becomes enmeshed in the islandâ€™s troublesâ€”the power struggles between an enigmatic goat herder and the family that has controlled the area for centuriesâ€”while Fredâ€™s sanity wavers and their marriage begins to unravel. , Filled with lush imagery of the Irish coast, crashing sea, rolling hills, and rich Irish lore, ,The Night Swimmer , is a stunning novel that exposes the dark and unseen crevasses in the human heart.
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The Night Swimmer