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Back 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. & 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.

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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

She writes like a hyperkinetic angel * The Times * Distilled images of vital and unsettling power. Levy is one of the few contemporary British writers comfortable on a world stage * New Statesman * It throbs its way into the imagination like the unguided missile it decries * Observer on BEAUTIFUL MUTANTS * 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 *

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 *

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Deborah 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.

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