The swimming pool season
Subtitle: a novel
By: by Rose Tremain.
Edition: 1st Owl Book ed.
Publisher: H. Holt
Published: 1986
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
Subjects: Swimming pools -- Fiction.; Villages -- Fiction.; France -- Fiction.
Description: From the author of The Gustav SonataAfter the collapse of 'Aquazure', his swimming pool construction business, Larry and Miriam Kendall have exiled themselves to a sleepy French village. When Miriam is summoned to her mother's deathbed in Oxford, Larry begins to formulate a dazzling new the creation of the most beautiful, the most artistic swimming pool of all. Around them, Rose Tremain weaves the intricate fabric of the lives of two Miriam's mother, Leni, clever, beautiful and arrogant. Polish Nadia, tortured by the passions of her sad and guilty past. Gervaise the peasant woman - content with her boisterous German lover and confused husband. And the young tearaway Xavier, in love with the virginal Agnes.
Notes: "An Owl book."