Early Levy
  • Published: 26 March 2014
  • ISBN: 9780241968338
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $22.99

Early Levy

Beautiful Mutants and Swallowing Geography

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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, travelling Europe with her typewriter in a pillowcase. From J.K.'s irreverent, ironic perspective, Levy charts a new, dizzying, end-of-the-century world of shifting boundaries and displaced peoples.
  • Published: 26 March 2014
  • ISBN: 9780241968338
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $22.99
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About the author

Deborah Levy

Deborah Levy writes fiction, plays and poetry. Her work has been staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company, and she is the author of numerous books, including the essay 'Things I Don't Want to Know'and the early novels Swallowing Geography and Beautiful Mutants. Her novel Swimming Home was shortlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize, 2012 Specsavers National Book Awards and 2013 Jewish Quarterly Wingate Prize.

Also by Deborah Levy

August Blue
Real Estate
The Man Who Saw Everything
The Cost of Living
Hot Milk
Swallowing Geography
Beautiful Mutants
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Praise for Early Levy

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