Beautiful Mutants

by Deborah Levy

Book Overview

This novel, the first from Deborah Levy who has previously published poetry and prose in several anthologies, explores the themes of exile and emigration as forms of emotional displacement. It... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670828920
• ISBN13: 9780670828920
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Viking Books
• Length: 90 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Powerful and imaginative..

In deborah Levy's powerfully imaginative and disturbing first novel the domon-summoning, manipulative, and magical Russian exile, Lapinski, reveals a city inhabited by the dispossessed, the successful, and the damned, as she records their broken dreams and self-destructive desires. A prophet or a liar, a seer or a fake, Lapinski calls forth a number of highly contemporary and lost pilgrims -- The Poet, The Prostitute, The Banker, The Golden Slut, The Anorexic Anarchist. Lust merges with violence, dissillusionment with revenge, and male with female as the characters live converge.