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| Swimming in the Congo | 
 enlarge | Author: Margaret Meyers
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 1602373
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 261
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.4 x 0.8
ISBN: 1571310061
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781571310064
ASIN: 1571310061
Publication Date: September 1995
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Condition: Dispatched from the US -- Expect delivery in 2-3 weeks. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Shipped to over one million happy customers! Your purchase benefits world literacy!
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Incredible feeling of actually swimming in the Congo September 16, 1998
This book is beautifully written with amazingly different images and descriptions. Myers really brings us into the Congo, and makes us believe that we too have felt the sun burning down while we swam across the rough river waters.
stunning debut collection of stories July 31, 1997
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
SWIMMING IN THE CONGO is a stunning story cycle about a missionary girl growing up in the Congo. While the collection is not autobiographical, Margaret Meyers, like her protagonist Grace, did spend her childhood in the Congo, and SWIMMING IN THE CONGO is replete with carely-observed and lovingly-rendered details that absolutely convince the reader of its authenticity. But more vivid than the milieu in which it is set are the characters--missionaries, servants, lovers--particularly the narrator who moves in the course of these stories from childhood to adolescence. Funny, poignant, often heartbreakingly beautiful, these stories reveal the life of a woman whose early life was Africa and the Lord God and who now cannot live in an Africa which does not recognize her Africaness nor with the God of her fathers, but who will never escape either. This is the first book of a writer whom we will be reading a long time.
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