Deborah Levy, Author Dalkey Archive Press $13.95 (192p) ISBN 978-1-56478-202-1
First published in England in 1996, this darkly humorous, surrealistic rendering of a primal family drama is also an unsettling postmodern portrait of the hurt and rage of adolescence. Fifteen-year-old Billy England and his 17-year-old sister, Girl (
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Deborah Levy, Author Viking Books $16.95 (112p) ISBN 978-0-670-82605-6
This short story collection is the work of a gifted young writer who has yet to find her voice. In ``Preparing for Life,'' Levy imitates Latin-American magic realists to tell of Mamita, a dying woman whose sneeze causes her soul, in the form of a...
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Deborah Levy, Author Viking Books $17.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-670-82892-0
Levy's feverishly imagined, opaque and dislocated contemporary allegory is set in London and New York, but occupies an anarchic space all its own. Through the agency of cigar-smoking, stump-toothed Russian exile Lapinski--a woman who is evidently a...
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Deborah Levy. Bloomsbury, $22 (128p) ISBN 978-1-62040-565-9
Author of the Man Booker Prize shortlisted Swimming Home offers a slim, nuanced autobiography that addresses Orwell’s timeless question of “Why I Write” from a woman’s perspective. Levy begins with a trip to Majorca on which she mysteriously packs...
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Deborah Levy. Bloomsbury, $24 (144p) ISBN 978-1-62040-672-4
Levy, author of the Booker-shortlisted Swimming Home, proves with this collection that her precision and unusual imagination are well suited to the short story form. The 10 spare stories included here explore the desire for a change in identity, in...
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Deborah Levy. And Other Stories (Consortium, dist.), $12.95 (96p) ISBN 978-1-908276-46-9
Levy, author of the 2012 Man Booker Prize-shortlisted novel Swimming Home, exists among a rare breed of multi-genre writers as a composer of plays, short stories, and poetry. It's not surprising then that this revised edition of her 1990 work flirts
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Deborah Levy. Bloomsbury, $16 trade paper (208p) ISBN 978-1-62040-675-5
The two picaresque novels collected in this volume—which are also the first two published novels from Man Booker Prize–shortlisted Levy (Swimming Home)—glimmer with dazzling flashes of fantasy and surreality. Beautiful Mutants (first published in...
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Deborah Levy. Bloomsbury, $26 (224p) ISBN 978-1-62040-669-4
“Is Donald Duck a child or hormonal teenager or an immature adult? Or is he all of those things at the same time, like I probably am?” These questions come from the memorable heroine of Booker-finalist Levy’s (Swimming Home) novel: 25-year-old Sofia,
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Deborah Levy. Bloomsbury, $20 (160p) ISBN 978-1-63557-191-2
This slim, singular memoir by British playwright and poet Levy (Hot Milk) chronicles a brief period following the “shipwreck” of the London writer’s 20-year marriage. Levy, a Booker Prize finalist, moved from a large Victorian home to an apartment...
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Deborah Levy. Bloomsbury, $26 (208p) ISBN 978-1-63286-984-5
Booker Prize–finalist Levy (Hot Milk) explores the fragile connections and often vast chasms between self and others in this playful, destabilizing, and consistently surprising novel. The book’s first half, set in late 1988, unfolds fairly...
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Deborah Levy. Bloomsbury, $20 (304p) ISBN 978-1-635-57221-6
Levy (The Cost of Living) brings her trilogy of autobiographies home in this incandescent meditation on writing, womanhood, and the places that nurture both. From her shabby flat in North London, she imagines a dream property: “a grand old house...
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Deborah Levy. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27 (208p) ISBN 978-0-374-60204-8
Levy follows up The Man Who Saw Everything with another magnificent experiment in surrealism, this time with the story of a 34-year-old Londoner who encounters her double. Elsa Anderson, a famous pianist whose star is on the wane after a disastrous...
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Deborah Levy and Andrzej Klimowski. Selfmadehero (Abrams, dist.), $19.99 trade paper (112p) ISBN 978-1-91059-313-4
A convoluted story that is hindered by awkward artwork and lettering, this shoots for the stars but doesn’t make it past the ozone. A young man, Tom Banbury, finds that his boss, Nick, has absorbed Tom’s own memories of an abusive father, and acts...
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Edited by Daniel Hahn and Margarita Valencia. And Other Stories, $15.95 ISBN 978-1-908276-78-0
This diverse collection presents a dozen stories, half of which are translations. In his concise introduction, Salman Rushdie links Cervantes and Shakespeare for believing that literature need not conform to a category; rather, “it can be many...
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Deborah Levy. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26 (176p) ISBN 978-0-374-61497-3
Novelist and playwright Levy (August Blue) delivers a dazzling collection of musings on art, aging, psychoanalysis, celebrity car crashes, and more. The stylish essays—some as brief as one page—run the gamut from funny reflections on the Mona Lisa (“
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