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Swallowing Geography

byDeborah Levy

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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.

One of the few British writers comfortable on a world stage

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About Deborah Levy

Deborah Levy is the author of several novels including August Blue, Hot Milk and Swimming Home, alongside a formally innovative, critically acclaimed 'living autobiography' trilogy: Things I Don't Want to Know, The Cost of Living and Real Estate. She has been shortlisted twice each for the Goldsmiths Prize and Booker Prize and won the Prix Femina Etranger. She has also written for The Royal Shakespeare Company and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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  • Series: Penguin Essentials #106
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • ISBN: 9780241400203
  • Length: 96 pages
  • Dimensions: 178mm x 7mm x 111mm
  • Weight: 60g
  • Price: £8.99
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