Haunts of the black masseur : the swimmer as hero
Sprawson, Charles2018
Book
Haunts of the Black Masseur is a dazzling introduction to the great swimming heroes: Byron leaping into the surf at Shelley's beach funeral, Hart Crane, swallow-diving to his death in the Bay of Mexico, Ulysses, Leander, Weismuller and many more. In lively prose bursting with anecdote, Charles Sprawson leads us into a watery world populated by lithe demi-Gods one that has obsessed humans from the ancient Greeks and Romans, to Yeats, Virginia Woolf, F. Scott Fitzgerald and David Hockney. Original, enticing and dripping with references to literature, film, art and Olympic history, this cult swimming classic pays sparkling tribute to water and the cultural meanings we attach to it.
Main title:
Haunts of the black masseur : the swimmer as hero / Charles Sprawson ; with an introduction by Amy Liptrot.
Author:
Sprawson, Charles, authorLiptrot, Amy, author of introduction
Imprint:
London : Vintage, 2018.©1992
Collation:
xi, 319 pages ; 20 cm.
Series title:
Notes:
Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 1992.Includes index.
ISBN:
9780099577249 (pbk)9780099577249 (paperback)
Dewey class:
797.2109797.21
Language:
English
BRN:
146156
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
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| Kathleen Syme Carlton | -Art and Culture | ARTS 797.21 SPRA | Available |
| Kathleen Syme Carlton | -Art and Culture | ARTS 797.21 SPRA | Available |
| Library at the Dock | -Art and Culture | ARTS 797.21 SPRA | Available |