{"product_id":"swimming-lesson-and-other-stories","title":"Swimming Lesson and Other Stories","description":"This story collection by multiple award-winning poet, author and playwright Kobus Moolman is a volume of unconventional potency. Written in a range of styles, voices and genres, each of the ten stories offers original insights into the difficulties of staying afloat. Whether the challenge is being differently abled (with all the outsider isolation this brings); lower-income family life under unbending patriarchal rule; or being born a female child in an abusive, gendered culture, the narratives are convincing (often humorous) in their portrayal of trapped lives striving for transcendence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe darkly funny \u003cem\u003eKiss and the Brigadier\u003c\/em\u003e invokes the stultifying boredom of small-town life and the captured mentalities of its understimulated citizens; \u003cem\u003eExtracts from a Dispensable Life\u003c\/em\u003e offers a creative and sensitive reading of the gender violence theme; while the irreverent but never disrespectful \u003cem\u003eAngel Heart\u003c\/em\u003e ventures into the risky waters of religious send-up.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Swimming Lesson and Other Stories\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection that stands out for its unusual perspectives; its frank, often uncomfortable treatment of taboo topics; its creative risk-taking; and its skilful and observant recreation of worlds gone by, which still leave their aftershocks.","brand":"University of KwaZulu-Natal Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56709213487448,"sku":"9781869143626","price":13.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781869143626.jpg?v=1771446624","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/swimming-lesson-and-other-stories","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}