Editions

Swallowing Geography

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780241400203

  • Length: 96  Pages

  • Dimensions: 181mm x 6mm x 111mm

  • Weight: 58g

  • RRP: £8.99

Swallowing Geography

'An exciting writer, sharp and shocking as the knives her characters wield' Sunday Times

Like her namesake Jack Kerouac, J.K. is always on the road, travelling Europe with her typewriter in a pillowcase. From J.K.'s irreverent, ironic perspective, Levy charts a new, dizzying, end-of-the-century world of shifting boundaries and displaced peoples.

'Levy is a brilliant writer' Telegraph

'Levy's strength is her originality of thought and expression' Jeanette Winterson

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780241400203

  • Length: 96  Pages

  • Dimensions: 181mm x 6mm x 111mm

  • Weight: 58g

  • RRP: £8.99

Reviews

  • One of the few British writers comfortable on a world stage

    New Statesman

  • Levy is a brilliant writer

    Telegraph

  • An exciting writer, sharp and shocking as the knives her characters wield

    Sunday Times

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About the Author

Deborah Levy

Deborah Levy is a British playwright, novelist and poet. She is the author of seven novels: Beautiful Mutants (1986); Swallowing Geography (1993); The Unloved (1994); Billy & Girl (1996); Swimming Home (2011); Hot Milk (2016) and The Man Who Saw Everything (2019). Swimming Home was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012; Hot Milk was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016 and the Goldsmiths Prize 2016. Deborah is also the author of an acclaimed collection of short stories, Black Vodka (2013), and two 'living autobiographies', Things I Don't Want To Know and The Cost of Living. She has written for the Royal Shakespeare Company and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Deborah Levy

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Features

Interview | Deborah Levy | The Phantom of Femininity

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Extracts

Hot Milk by Deborah Levy

A richly mythic, colour-saturated tale from Deborah Levy exploring the violently primal bond between mother and daughter.

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