num_pages: 192
description: Jerra and his best mate Sean set off in a beaten-up old VW to go camping on the coast. Jerra's friends and family want to know when he will finish university, and when he will find a girl. But they don't understand about Sean's mother, Jewel, or the bush, or the fish with the pearl. They think he needs a job but what Jerra is searching for is more elusive. Only the sea, and perhaps the old man who lives in a shack beside it, can help.
language: English
title: An Open Swimmer
titlecomplete: An Open Swimmer
genres: Young Adult, Literary Fiction, Novels, Australia, Coming Of Age, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 924
awards: awardedAt: 347184000000
name: Australian/Vogel's Literary Award
publisher: Picador