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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

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Author

Levy, Deborah

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published

1989

Language

EN

ISBN

9781620406755

Category

travel

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Psychology, Fiction

Rating

3.59 / 5 (33 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14