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Deborah Levy
Books in Order: 20 titles
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My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein
In contemporary Paris, a narrator and two companions explore the life and work of Gertrude Stein: a subversive imagining of a truly subversive female artist. Our narrator has a lot going on. Her friend Eva's cat is missing -- also, she wonders, where...
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August Blue
Named a Best Book of the Year by TIME, Vulture, The Guardian, BBC, The Week, and Publisher's WeeklyA new novel from the Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, the celebrated author of The Man Who Saw Everything and The Cost of Living.At the height of he...
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Billy & Girl
In this brilliant, inventive, tragic farce, Deborah Levy creates the ultimate dysfunctional kids, Billy and his sister Girl. Apparently abandoned years ago by their parents, they now live alone somewhere in England. Girl spends much of her time tryin...
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The Man Who Saw Everything
An electrifying and audacious novel about beauty, envy, and carelessness by Deborah Levy, two-time Man Booker Prize finalist. It is 1988 and Saul Adler, a narcissistic young historian, has been invited to Communist East Berlin to do research; in e...
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The Cost of Living
The bestselling exploration of the dimensions of love, marriage, mourning, and kinship from two-time Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy.
A New York Times Notable Book
A New York Public Library Best Nonfiction Book of 2018
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Early Levy
Beautiful Mutants, Deborah Levy's feverish allegory of a first novel, introduces a manipulative and magical Russian exile who summons forth a series of grotesques--among them the Poet, the Banker, and the Anorexic Anarchist. Levy explores the anxieti...
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Stardust Nation
For the high-flying, heavy-drinking advertising boss Tom Banbury, the art of persuasion relies on an infiltration of the consumer's mind. In the case of his colleague and confidante Nikos Gazidis, the overdeveloped sense of empathy that makes him so ...
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Beautiful Mutants and Swallowing Geography
From the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author of "Swimming Home," a single volume comprising her first two novels: "Beautiful Mutants," long out of print, and "Swallowing Geography," never before published in the United States. "Beautiful Mutants,"...
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The Unloved
The image is instant. It whirs out of the camera and they all watch it develop in silence. "Here." He gives the photograph to the perfect flawless woman without looking at it, by way of apology. When everyone gathers around Luciana to admire it, Gu...
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Black Vodka
The stories in Black Vodka, by acclaimed author Deborah Levy, are perfectly formed worlds unto themselves, written in elegant yet economical prose. She is a master of the short story, exploring loneliness and belonging; violence and tenderness; the e...
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Swimming Home
As he arrives with his family at the villa in the hills above Nice, Joe sees a body in the swimming pool. But the girl is very much alive. She is Kitty Finch: a self-proclaimed botanist with green-painted fingernails, walking naked out of the water a...
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Real Estate
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose
Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, the Washington Post, TIME.com, and Kirkus
A Millions Most Anticipated Book of the Year
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Pillow Talk in Europe and Other Places
From the author of Billy and Girl, this collection of stories explores the emptiness at the center of the characters' lives and their attempts to fill this lack. In "Cave Girl" Cass goes through a sex change, not to become a man, but rather to bec...
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Billy and Girl
Billy England and his sister Girl are clever, stylish and damaged. Billy is a teenage "catastrophe theorist" which is handy since their mother is missing, and when they last saw their father his Elvis hair was in flames. They decide to sell the pain ...
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Swallowing Geography
Interrogates the yearning of discontented children, imagined homes, strangers and histories, as the century draws to an end. The irreverent and ironic narrator asks: Who are the melancholy architects of the future and how do we measure value, as we s...
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Ophelia and the Great Idea
Knowledge, intuition, science, and love are thrown into question in a collection of stories that embodies everyday dilemmas and dramas in settings as diverse as Ibiza to Camden Town, and from rural Spain to a precarious rowboat...
