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OverviewA stunning early novel from Booker-shortlisted author Deborah Levy, now a Penguin Essential 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Deborah LevyPublisher: Penguin Books Ltd Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd Dimensions: Width: 11.10cm , Height: 0.50cm , Length: 18.10cm Weight: 0.058kg ISBN: 9780241400203ISBN 10: 0241400201 Pages: 96 Publication Date: 06 June 2019 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsAn exciting writer, sharp and shocking as the knives her characters wield * Sunday Times * Levy is a brilliant writer * Telegraph * One of the few British writers comfortable on a world stage * New Statesman * One of the few British writers comfortable on a world stage * New Statesman * Levy is a brilliant writer * Telegraph * An exciting writer, sharp and shocking as the knives her characters wield * Sunday Times * Author InformationDeborah Levy is the author of seven novels- Beautiful Mutants, Swallowing Geography, The Unloved, Billy and Girl, Swimming Home, Hot Milk and The Man Who Saw Everything. She has been shortlisted twice each for the Goldsmiths Prize and the Man Booker Prize. Her short story collection, Black Vodka, was nominated for the International Frank O'Connor Short Story Award and was broadcast on BBC Radio 4, as were her acclaimed dramatizations of Freud's iconic case studies, Dora and The Wolfman. She has also written for The Royal Shakespeare Company and her pioneering theatre writing is collected in Levy- Plays 1. Her work is widely translated. Deborah Levy is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She is also the author of a formally innovative and emotionally daring trilogy of memoirs, a living autobiography on writing, gender politics and philosophy. The first two volumes, Things I Don't Want to Know and The Cost of Living, won the Prix Femina Etranger 2020. The final volume, Real Estate, will be published in Spring 2021. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |