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Beautiful Mutants by Deborah Levy
Beautiful Mutants by Deborah Levy. 1989 Viking, first U.S. edition, 90 pages. Levy is a British novelist and playwright whose work has been shortlisted for the Booker, and who's more recent "living autobiographies" have amassed a larger following. In a Guardian profile from 2023: "Part of the appeal of Levy’s writing is that it is shot through with unpatronising sympathy towards younger women – both the hesitant, tough young female characters who populate her novels, and those who appear in her living autobiographies, often negotiating sticky situations with older, entitled men. " Beautiful Mutants was her first novel.
Condition: VG, remainder mark
"She said I was conceived on the marble slab of a war memorial, both she and my father in their Sunday best; I came into being on a pile of corpses in the bitter snows of mid-winter."
Beautiful Mutants by Deborah Levy. 1989 Viking, first U.S. edition, 90 pages. Levy is a British novelist and playwright whose work has been shortlisted for the Booker, and who's more recent "living autobiographies" have amassed a larger following. In a Guardian profile from 2023: "Part of the appeal of Levy’s writing is that it is shot through with unpatronising sympathy towards younger women – both the hesitant, tough young female characters who populate her novels, and those who appear in her living autobiographies, often negotiating sticky situations with older, entitled men. " Beautiful Mutants was her first novel.
Condition: VG, remainder mark
"She said I was conceived on the marble slab of a war memorial, both she and my father in their Sunday best; I came into being on a pile of corpses in the bitter snows of mid-winter."