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My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein, June 2026
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August Blue, June 2024
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August Blue, June 2023
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Black Vodka, June 2014
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BLACK VODKA
By: Deborah Levy

Ten Stories

Bloomsbury USA
June 2014
On Sale: June 10, 2014
136 pages
ISBN: 1620406721
EAN: 9781620406724
Kindle: B00IAMKD20
Hardcover / e-Book
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Fiction

The stories in Black Vodka, by acclaimed author Deborah Levy, are perfectly formed worlds unto themselves, written in elegant yet economical prose. She is a master of the short story, exploring loneliness and belonging; violence and tenderness; the ephemeral and the solid; the grotesque and the beautiful; love and infidelity; and fluid identities national, cultural, and personal.

In “Shining a Light,” a woman’s lost luggage is juxtaposed with far more serious losses. An icy woman seduces a broken man in “Vienna,” and a man’s empathy threatens to destroy him in “Stardust Nation.” “Cave Girl” features a girl who wants to be a different kind of woman—she succeeds in a shocking way. A deformed man seeks beauty amid his angst in the title story.

These are twenty-first century lives dissected with razor-sharp humor and curiosity. Published simultaneously with Things I Don’t Want to Know: On Writing, Levy’s stories will send you tumbling into a rabbit hole, and you won't be able to scramble out until long after you’ve turned the last page.