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Book SynopsisEarly Levy comprises 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.
''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
Trade Review
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 *
