Be sure to enjoy language, experiment with ways of talking, be exuberant when you don’t feel like it – language can make your world a better place to live.
- Deborah Levy
Deborah Levy writes fiction, plays and poetry. Her work has been staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company, and she is the author of highly praised novels, including Beautiful Mutants, Swallowing Geography (both Jonathan Cape) and Billy and Girl (Bloomsbury). Two radio plays based on Freud’s case-studies will air on BBC Radio 4 in November 2011.
And Other Stories 2011 Title
Swimming Home
Read more about Swimming Home in the book section.
More Information
- Tom McCarthy (author of Remainder, Men in Space and C) on Swimming Home and Deborah Levy’s place in the UK literary scene. Download a sneak preview of the Swimming Home introduction by Tom McCarthy (229)
- In November 2011′s Tatler (UK), Deborah Levy was named the month’s cool author.
Praise for Deborah Levy
- ‘Deborah Levy’s storytelling is allusive, elliptical and disturbing. Her touch is gentle, often funny and always acute… This is a prizewinner.’ Julia Pascal, The Independent
- ‘Swimming Home is a statement on the power of the unsaid. Magisterial … Themes, phrases and images recur in rhythmic cycles through this fugal novel. Levy’s cinematic clarity and momentum convey confusion with remarkable lucidity.’ Abigail Deutsch, TLS
- ‘Deborah Levy has made something strange and new … spiky and unsettling. In Swimming Home, home is elusive, safety is unlikely, and the reader closes the book both satisfied and unnerved.’ John Self, The Guardian
- ‘Swimming Home is as sharp as a wasp sting.’ Christina Petrie, Sunday Times (6 Nov 2011)
- ‘A compact treasure.’ Boyd Tonkin, in his round-up of the year’s best fiction, The Independent
- ‘Dark, sometimes humorous, intriguing and tragic, Levy’s tale held me captive from its dramatic beginning’ Lucy Popescu, The Tablet
- ‘Levy’s strength is her originality of thought and expression.’ Jeanette Winterson
- ‘I made notes to read as much as I can find by Deborah Levy…’ Bookslut.com
- ‘She is one of the few contemporary British writers comfortable on a world stage.’ New Statesman
- ‘Levy’s prose throbs its way into the imagination.’ The Observer
- ‘Levy is an exciting writer, sharp and shocking as the knives her characters wield.’ Sunday Times
- ‘Delicate, calm, mysterious, both playful and terribly sad.’ Mary Gaitskill, New York Times
- ‘Lively, sharp, remarkably evocative with very few words, Levy is the best kind of “modern” writer’ Booklist (USA)
- ‘The strange brilliance of her imagination’ The Independent
- ‘Levy is consistently striking and successful when reinterpreting and creating new contexts for literary and dramatic ideas.’ TLS
