The Early Novels: Beautiful Mutants, Swallowing Geography, the Unloved

by Deborah Levy

Book Overview

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 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 163286908X
• ISBN13: 9781632869081
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.5" x 8.0"