num_pages: 12
description: Neddy Merrill decides to swim home from a friend's pool party, traveling from fashionable swimming pool to swimming pool on a perfect mid-summer's day. But as night falls and the season begins to change, Neddy sinks from optimistic bliss to utter despair.
language: English
title: The Swimmer
titlecomplete: The Swimmer
genres: Literary Fiction, Short Stories, Fiction, Literature, 20th Century, School, The United States Of America, Read For School, American, Classics
ratings_count: 4102
publisher: Random House Value Publishing