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Description for Black Vodka
Paperback. Num Pages: 133 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 138 x 13. Weight in Grams: 214. Very good copy .First edition.
'Kissing you is like new paint and old pain. It is like coffee and car alarms and a dim stairway and a stain and it's like smoke.' ('Placing a Call') How does love change us? And how do we change ourselves for love - or for lack of it? Ten stories by acclaimed author Deborah Levy explore these delicate, impossible questions. In Vienna, an icy woman seduces a broken man; in London gardens, birds sing in computer start-up sounds; in ad-land, a sleek copywriter becomes a kind of shaman. These are twenty-first century lives dissected with ... Read more
'Kissing you is like new paint and old pain. It is like coffee and car alarms and a dim stairway and a stain and it's like smoke.' ('Placing a Call') How does love change us? And how do we change ourselves for love - or for lack of it? Ten stories by acclaimed author Deborah Levy explore these delicate, impossible questions. In Vienna, an icy woman seduces a broken man; in London gardens, birds sing in computer start-up sounds; in ad-land, a sleek copywriter becomes a kind of shaman. These are twenty-first century lives dissected with ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
And Other Stories
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
High Wycombe, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781908276162
SKU
KEX0303211
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Levy Deborah
Deborah Levy is an author, playwright and poet. Her fiction includes two Man Booker Prize shortlisted novels, Swimming Home (2011) and Hot Milk (2016), as well as Black Vodka (2013), shortlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award.
Reviews for Black Vodka
'These tales of unconventional love reinforce Levy's reputation as a major contemporary writer who never pulls her punches.' The Independent
'Metropolitan and knowingly sophisticated.' Sunday Times
'These ominous, odd, erotic stories burrow deep into your brain.' Financial Times
'A collection of mischievous vignettes of Mitteleuropa.' The Telegraph
'Like their protagonists, these stories are powerful because they ... Read more
'Metropolitan and knowingly sophisticated.' Sunday Times
'These ominous, odd, erotic stories burrow deep into your brain.' Financial Times
'A collection of mischievous vignettes of Mitteleuropa.' The Telegraph
'Like their protagonists, these stories are powerful because they ... Read more