Early Levy
Beautiful Mutants and Swallowing Geography
$23.40
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
26 March 2014
Summary
Back in print at last, two pioneering early works by Man Booker-shortlisted writer Deborah Levy
BEAUTIFUL MUTANTS
Lapinski, a manipulative and magical Russian exile, summons forth a number of highly contemporary urban pilgrims. Through them, Levy explores broken dreams and self-destructive desires in a shimmering, dislocated allegory of its times.
SWALLOWING GEOGRAPHY
Like her namesake Jack Kerouac, J.K. is always on the road, …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241968338 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 024196833X |
| Author: | Deborah Levy |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 26 March 2014 |
| Weight: | 154g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 15mm |
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She storms through the back door, refusing to be weighed down with rationalist and aesthetic baggage … [This] is a world on the brink of destruction but it’s going down with a barnyard laugh and an explosive extravagance of imagination * Blitz *It throbs its way into the imagination like the unguided missile it decries * Observer on BEAUTIFUL MUTANTS *Distilled images of vital and unsettling power. Levy is one of the few contemporary British writers comfortable on a world stage * New Statesman *She writes like a hyperkinetic angel * The Times *
About The Author
Deborah Levy
Deborah Levy is the author of several novels including August Blue, Hot Milk and Swimming Home, alongside a formally innovative, critically acclaimed ‘living autobiography’ trilogy- Things I Don’t Want to Know, The Cost of Living and Real Estate. She has been shortlisted twice each for the Goldsmiths Prize and Booker Prize and won the Prix Femina Etranger. She has also written for The Royal Shakespeare Company and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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