Ashley Sievwright
The Shallow End
ISBN 978-0-9802983-4-5 | 176 pp. | RRP $24.95
‘It was one of the most perfect days, only just warm enough,
an ever so slight breeze I could see in the hairs on my arm and
in the flutter of the flags across each end of the pool but
couldn’t feel. It must have been the exact temperature of my
blood.’
On a cloudless afternoon, a man dives into a crowded swimming
pool and disappears. Is it murder, a staged disappearance or
alien abduction?
The Shallow End — a steady freestyle commentary on sex,
celebrity and suntanning.
Interview with Ashley Sievwright
'The book actually turned out to be
incredibly personal. It’s no accident that the narrator has just
returned from Barcelona to Melbourne. It’s no accident that he
loves swimming laps and perving at the pool. It’s no accident
that he had a relationship explode in his face in Spain...'
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Shortlisted in the 2009 Commonwealth Writers Prize - Best
First Book.
REVIEWS
Canberra Times - 18 April 2009:
'... a little gem of a novel...' Read
FULL REVIEW
READERS HAVE THEIR SAY
I’m up to Chapter 3 … I love it you dirty
dirty boy …
Yol
Awesome. Absolutely loved it! The
un-solved and un-solvable mystery: do we exist at all if not in
the minds of others?
Liz
Whatever I expected it wasn't this. It is
a definite re-read book, something to be periodically taken from
the shelves and enjoyed again, to be savoured for its loving use
of language, its sly wit and, perhaps more than anything else,
its capturing of a time of passage so recurrently human. All
through my reading my soul kept saying "yes, I know". I'll sit
it on my shelves alongside Dessaix's Night Letters with
which it shares so much. Well done and heartfelt
congratulations...it is a beautiful piece of work. And thank you
for reviving one of my earliest erotic memories...Sean Connery,
Goldfinger and THAT suit.
Andrew
I finished the book last night - Ash, it
is so GOOD. Narrator's voice, plot, characters, dialogue, all
authentic, unique and deftly handled. The book flows really
effortlessly, is hard to put down, and has lovely unexpected
insights and emotional bits. I enjoyed every page! And as for
the sexy bits...well, why the hell not? (unless your nanna is
going to read it :-) ...
Claire
Dear Ashley, Sharon is at p32, I read my
way to p50 this morning (end of chapter three). Was not sure
whether to expect heavy modernism, complex symbolic writing (the
new Patrick White) or a gliding seemingly easy to read almost
mystery - I do like the concept of washed out gay man as the new
Cliff Hardy.
Conor
The one problem with finding a book you
really enjoy reading and that is very hard to put down is that,
well, it's very hard to put down and you end up reading it as
quickly as you can... and then you get Reader's Remorse because
there's no more book...
The Shallow End was one of those books ... I started reading
it at midnight last night, was up until about quarter past one
when I decided I didn't want to put it down, but I probably
should... then I picked it up again when I first woke up and
spent about an hour reading in bed (which I haven't done in the
mornings for a long while), then after I'd done everything else
I needed to do, I picked it back up and finished it.
YANIBLOG
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