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  • Published: 3 April 2014
  • ISBN: 9780241146637
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 96
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Beautiful Mutants





A stunning early novel by the Man Booker-shortlisted author of Swimming Home

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.

  • Published: 3 April 2014
  • ISBN: 9780241146637
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 96
Categories:

About the author

Deborah Levy

Deborah Levy was born in 1969, studied theatre at Dartington College of Arts, and now lives in London. Her plays include Pax, which City Limits considred 'remarkable for its combination of intellectual rigour, poetic fantasy and visual imagination' and Heresies for the Royal Shakespeare Company, 'An ambitious, imaginative, sometimes funny, sometimes touching, passage across a terrain where moral parables and folk fancies meet' (Marina Warner, Independent). She has also published a collection of short stories, Ophelia and the Great Idea, and a novel, Beautiful Mutants, and, most recently, Swallowing Geography, all of which are published by Vintage.

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Praise for Beautiful Mutants

It throbs its way into the imagination like the unguided missiles it decries

Observer

A stunningly original writer

Kirsty Gunn

Levy's strength is her originality of thought and expression

Jeanette Winterson
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