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  • Published: 18 June 2019
  • ISBN: 9780241400203
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 96
  • RRP: $22.99

Swallowing Geography





A stunning early novel from Booker-shortlisted author Deborah Levy, now a Penguin Essential

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: 18 June 2019
  • ISBN: 9780241400203
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 96
  • RRP: $22.99

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 Swallowing Geography

One of the few British writers comfortable on a world stage

New Statesman

Levy is a brilliant writer

Telegraph

An exciting writer, sharp and shocking as the knives her characters wield

Sunday Times