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From the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Swimming Home, an individual volume comprising her first two novels: Beautiful Mutants, long out of print, and Swallowing Geography, nothing you've seen prior published in the United States. Beautiful Mutants, Deborah Levy's surreal first novel, introduces a manipulative and magical Russian exile who summons forth some 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 really is a feverish allegory written in prose so beautiful and acrobatic that it might only result from a poet. This remarkable and pioneering debut is really as much about language as it's the world that ensnares and alienates us. In Swallowing Geography, J. K., like her namesake Jack Kerouac, is usually 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 entire world through her uniquely irreverent, ironic perspective. Levy blends story book with biting satire, pushing at the edges of reality and marveling at where in fact the world collapses in on itself. In this stunningly original novel, Deborah Levy searches deep into the heart of the late 20th century and will not hold back on what she finds there.
