{"product_id":"9781632869111","title":"Black Vodka : Ten Stories","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eBlack Vodka\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Deborah Levy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNow in paperback, a \"tantalizingly poetic\" (\u003ci\u003eNYTBR\u003c\/i\u003e) collection in which Levy \"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003econquer[s] the genre which demands she fashion perfect jewels\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Independent\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe stories in \u003ci\u003eBlack Vodka\u003c\/i\u003e, by acclaimed author Deborah Levy, are perfectly formed worlds unto themselves, written in elegant yet economical prose. She is a master of the short story, exploring loneliness and belonging; violence and tenderness; the ephemeral and the solid; the grotesque and the beautiful; love and infidelity; and fluid identities national, cultural, and personal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \"Shining a Light,\" a woman's lost luggage is juxtaposed with far more serious losses. An icy woman seduces a broken man in \"Vienna,\" and a man's empathy threatens to destroy him in \"Stardust Nation.\" \"Cave Girl\" features a girl who wants to be a different kind of woman--she succeeds in a shocking way. A deformed man seeks beauty amid his angst in the title story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese are twenty-first century lives dissected with razor-sharp humor and curiosity. Levy's stories will send you tumbling into a rabbit hole, and you won't be able to scramble out until long after you've turned the last page.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Levy provides fragmentary glimpses into the fascinating lives of people at odds with their surroundings and profoundly disturbed by their previous experiences. Edgy, unsettling, and intoxicating.” — starred review, \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A good short story has to be brief, with few characters, artistic jumps and artistic elisions (that make us think we are missing nothing). And, I believe, must contain a good swatch of poetry in its prose. If those are the paradigms, then Levy seems to makes it into the near-genius class.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Review of Arts, Literature, Philosophy and the Humanities (RALPH magazine)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[Levy's] precision and unusual imagination are well suited to the short story form . . . . Levy's talent is evident throughout--though the stories themselves can be unsettling, their evocative language invites the reader to settle in.” —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“One of the most exciting voices in contemporary British fiction . . . sophisticated and astringent.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“These ominous, odd, erotic stories burrow deep into your brain.” —\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A sexy hauteur in Deborah Levy's prose [is] reminiscent of the voice of Marianne Faithfull. The rasping, deadpan delivery of these ten new stories emit a dreamy harshness at once jaded and invigorating.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Fabulously jolting . . . Accomplished and uncanny . . . Powerful.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Enticing . . . Tantalizingly poetic.” —\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Levy's sparse, elegant stories are poetic and faintly surreal.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Levy harkens Lydia Davis's undulating, dreamlike style, moving quickly between tender observations and abrupt actions. A character may race bumblingly to answer a ringing phone in one sentence, and contemplate the rain in the next. Levy stitches such seemingly contradictory scenes together seamlessly to create an abstract, evocative collection.” —\u003ci\u003eHuffington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781632869111\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40597343862990,"sku":"9781632869111","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_f7d2b0c1-678e-4940-b647-d3f11c5b1518.jpg?v=1637877632","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781632869111","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}