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Beautiful Mutants And Swallowing Geography
Deborah Levy
Bloomsbury
July 2015
On Sale: June 23, 2015
208 pages
ISBN: 1620406756
EAN: 9781620406755
Kindle: B00UX2UR62
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Literature and Fiction
From the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Swimming Home, a single
volume comprising her first two novels: Beautiful Mutants, long out of print,
and Swallowing Geography, never before published in the United States.
Beautiful Mutants, Deborah Levy's surreal first novel, introduces a
manipulative and magical Russian exile who summons forth a series of
grotesques--among them the Poet, the Banker, and the Anorexic Anarchist.
Levy explores the anxieties that pervaded the 1980s: exile and emigration,
broken dreams, crazed greed and the first seeds of the global financial crisis,
self-destructive desires, and the disintegration of culture. It is a feverish
allegory written in prose so beautiful and acrobatic that it could only come
from a poet. This remarkable and pioneering debut is as much about
language as it is the world that ensnares and alienates us. In Swallowing
Geography, J. K., like her namesake Jack Kerouac, is always on the road,
traveling Europe with her typewriter in a pillowcase. She wanders, meeting
friends and strangers, battling her raging mother, and taking in the world
through her uniquely irreverent, ironic perspective. Levy blends fairytale with
biting satire, pushing at the edges of reality and marveling at where the world
collapses in on itself. In this stunningly original novel, Deborah Levy searches
deep into the heart of the late-twentieth century and does not hold back on
what she finds there.
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