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| Category:
Fiction/*Fiction
| Publication:
2004 Spring
| Rights sold:
Dutch/De Geus
Polish/ PIW
| Agent:
Jenny Thor
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| Sara Stridsberg (Author) |
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| Swedish title: Happy Sally |
Happy Sally is a fantasy about Sally Bauer, channel-swimmer and swimming queen who, in 1939, became the first Scandinavian to swim the English Channel.
But it is just as much the story of another determined swimmer, Ellen, who much later attempts to repeat that feat. Her passion for swimming penetrates all aspects of her life. She and her husband Viktor have reached an understanding: if she succeeds, she can devote her entire future to swimming; if she fails, she and the children have to accompany Viktor on his dream voyage of sailing across the Atlantic.
When Ellen’s daughter returns to Dover to recall the summer by the channel, Ellen’s utopia and defeat are mirrored in the story of Sally Bauer and her triumph.
Happy Sally is a very powerful debut novel that works on a number of levels, dealing with women who ruthlessly follow their dreams, who neglect their families and children, who are driven by an irresistible longing for freedom.
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