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Swimming to Elba audiobook
- By: Silvia Avallone
- Narrator: Cassandra Campbell
- Category: Coming of Age, Fiction
- Length: 13 hours 57 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2012
- Language: English
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Swimming to Elba Audiobook Summary
A sensually charged novel about two girls growing up fast in a failing industrial town on the coast of Italy
Anna and Francesca are on the brink of everything: high school, adulthood, and the edge of ambition in their provincial town. It’s summer in Piombino, Italy, and in their skimpy bathing suits, flaunting their newly acquired curves, the girls suddenly have everyone in their thrall. This power opens their imagination to a destiny beyond Piombino; the resort town of Elba is just a ferry ride away and yet they’ve never dared to go. Maybe the future is waiting for them there, or somewhere beyond.
When their friendship suffers a blow, the girls set off on their own only to discover that their budding sexuality takes them further than they expect, though not as far as their dreams. As their choices take them to a painful crossroads, the girls must reconnect if they have any hope of escaping their small town destinies.
In this poetic, prizewinning debut, Silvia Avallone captures the lost innocence of a generation. Harrowing yet ultimately redemptive, Swimming to Elba is a story about the power of friendship, and the way that family, friendship, and economics shape our world.
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Swimming to Elba Audiobook Narrator
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Swimming to Elba Full Details
| Narrator | Cassandra Campbell |
| Length | 13 hours 57 minutes |
| Author | Silvia Avallone |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group |
| Release date | May 05, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9781101566299 |
Subjects
The publisher of the Swimming to Elba is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: coming of age, drama, gifts for women, gifts for her, fiction, novels, women, women gifts, fiction books, books fiction, women's fiction, friendship, chick lit, romance, relationships, art, music, love, realistic fiction, england, modern, literary fiction, romantic, literary, contemporary romance, mystery, family, feminism, love story, 21st century, families, culture, school, relationship, fashion, boarding school, adolescence, divorce, historical, death, grief, love triangle, dutch, wwii, road trip, identity, mental health, book club books, Fiction, Coming of Age, Fiction, Contemporary Women The BISAC Subject Code is Coming of Age, Fiction
Additional info
The publisher of the Swimming to Elba is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Penguin Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9781101566299.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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