{"product_id":"early-levy-beautiful-mutants-and-swallowing-geography-9780241968338","title":"Early Levy: Beautiful Mutants and Swallowing Geography","description":"\u003cp\u003eLapinski, a manipulative and magical Russian exile, summons forth a number of highly contemporary urban pilgrims. This book explores broken dreams and self-destructive desires in a shimmering, dislocated allegory of its times.\u003c\/p\u003eBack in print at last, 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.  \u0026amp; 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.\u003ch4\u003eDetails\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN13: 9780241968338\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNumber of Pages: 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEdition: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication Date: 26 Mar 2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublisher: Penguin Books Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication City, Country: London, United Kingdom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDimensions (cm): 19.8(H)x12.9(L)x1.3(W)155\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWeight (gm): 155\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h4\u003eDeborah Levy is the author of several novels including August Blue, Hot Milk and Swimming Home, alongside a formally innovative, critically acclaimed 'living autobiography' trilogy- Things I Don't Want to Know, The Cost of Living and Real Estate. She has been shortlisted twice each for the Goldsmiths Prize and Booker Prize and won the Prix Femina Etranger. She has also written for The Royal Shakespeare Company and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.\u003ch4\u003eReviews\u003c\/h4\u003eShe 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 *\u003cbr\u003eIt throbs its way into the imagination like the unguided missile it decries * Observer on BEAUTIFUL MUTANTS *\u003cbr\u003eDistilled images of vital and unsettling power. Levy is one of the few contemporary British writers comfortable on a world stage * New Statesman *\u003cbr\u003eShe writes like a hyperkinetic angel * The Times *","brand":"Deborah Levy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48717330940121,"sku":"9780241968338","price":24.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0502\/9530\/8441\/files\/71vAUlren2L._SL1500.jpg?v=1779023386","url":"https:\/\/www.arielbooks.com.au\/products\/early-levy-beautiful-mutants-and-swallowing-geography-9780241968338","provider":"Ariel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}