Learning to Swim: And Other Stories

Graham Swift. Vintage Books USA, $15 (192pp) ISBN 978-0-679-73978-4

Swift's collection of tales about lovers at odds with each other exhibits strong characterizations but lacks the revelatory moments we expect from short fiction. Swift's new novel Ever After , forthcoming from Knopf in March, was reviewed in Fiction Forecasts (Jan. 20). (Mar.)

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