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Beautiful Mutants

Beautiful Mutants

Summary

The stunning debut novel from the two-time Booker-shortlisted author of Hot Milk and The Man Who Saw Everything, Deborah Levy.
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Levy's surreal and artful first novel, Beautiful Mutants, introduces Lapinski -- the manipulative and magical Russian exile who summons forth a number of urban pilgrims in a shimmering contemporary allegory about broken dreams and desires . . .
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'A stunningly original writer' Kirsty Gunn

'It throbs its way into the imagination like the unguided missiles it decries' Observer

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

Reviews

  • It throbs its way into the imagination like the unguided missiles it decries
    Observer

About the author

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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