Night swimming
Subtitle: stories
By: Pete Fromm.
Edition: 1st Picador USA ed.
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
Subjects: United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "After setting aside his ambitions to stay home and care for his failing mother, a young man becomes a janitor so he can follow her into a nursing home, all the while attempting to uncover a secret and wonderful past for her."--BOOK JACKET. "An FAA investigator has spent his career listening to black-box tapes - "eavesdropping on what become their very last words on earth" - yet finds himself struggling to discover the first clue about his own son's life."--BOOK JACKET.

"A teenage girl attempts to make sense of her mother's relationship with her oft-absent father in order to find the loyalties that will hold them all together, even as she approaches the age of leaving home herself."--BOOK JACKET.