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In this brilliant, inventive, tragic farce, Deborah Levy creates the ultimate dysfunctional kids, Billy and his sister Girl. Apparently abandoned years ago by their parents, they now live alone somewhere in England. Girl spends much of her time trying to find their mother, going to strangers' doors and addressing whatever Prozac woman who answers as "Mom." Billy spends his time fantasizing a future in which he will be famous, perhaps in the United States as a movie star, or as a psychiatrist, or as a doctor to blondes with breast enlargements, or as the author of "Billy England's Book of Pain." Together they both support and torture each other, barely able to remember their pasts but intent on forging a future that will bring them happiness and reunite them with the ever-elusive Mom. Billy and Girl are every boy and girl reeling from the pain of their childhoods, forgetting what they need to forget, inventing worlds they think will be better, but usually just prolonging nightmares as they begin to create--or so it seems--alternative personalities that will allow them to survive and conquer and punish. In the end, the reader is as bewildered as Billy and Girl--have they found Mom and a semblance of family, or are, they completely out of control and ready to explode?

A masterpiece of fiction from J. G. Ballard, which asks could Consumerism turn into Facism?A gunman opens fire in a shopping mall. Not a terrorist, apparently, but a madman with a rifle. Or not, as he is mysteriously (and quickly) set free without charge.One of the victims is the father of Richard Pearson, unemployed advertising executive and life-long rebel. Now he is driving out to Brooklands, the apparently peaceful town on the M25 which has at its heart the shining shoppers’ paradise where the shooting happened – the Metro-Centre. Richard, determined to unravel the mystery, starts to believe that something deeply sinister lurks behind the pristine facades of the labyrinthine mall, its 24-hour cable TV and sports club.In this, his final novel, Ballard holds up a mirror to Middle England, reflecting an unsettling image of suburbia and revealing the darker forces at work beneath the gloss of consumerism and flag-waving patriotism.This edition is part of a new commemorative series of Ballard’s works, featuring introductions from a number of his admirers (including Ned Beauman, Ali Smith, Neil Gaiman and Martin Amis) and brand-new cover designs.

Like her namesake Jack Kerouac, J.K. is always on the road, travelling Europe with her typewriter in a pillowcase. From J.K.'s irreverent, ironic perspective, Levy charts a new, dizzying, end-of-the-century world of shifting boundaries and displaced peoples.

Wie wird und wie bleibt man die Hauptfigur des eigenen Lebens, und zwar als Frau? Was braucht es, um diese Rolle nicht nur auszufüllen, sondern darin auch ein erfülltes Leben zu führen? Was sollten wir „besitzen, worauf Anspruch erheben, was wegwerfen, was weitergeben“? Nach dem internationalen Erfolg von Was das Leben kostet setzt Deborah Levy in Ein eigenes Haus ihre Verortung des weiblichen Selbst im 21. Jahrhundert konsequent fort. Deborah Levy ist um die sechzig. Die großen Lebensstationen wie die Familiengründung, der Abschied von den eigenen Eltern, die Begleitung der Kinder hinaus ins Leben liegen hinter ihr. Aber was heißt das schon? Bleibt die große Frage nicht immer, was das Leben wert ist? Und wann steht man eigentlich „mitten“ darin? Zu einem Zeitpunkt, der zunächst vor allem vom Danach bestimmt scheint, wagt Levy eine Bestandsaufnahme ihres Habens und Wollens, all der tatsächlich durchschrittenen und nur erträumten Lebensräume, und gelangt zu überraschenden und rasiermesserscharf formulierten Einsichten darüber, worauf es in der weiblichen Hauptrolle wirklich ankommt.

Deborah Levy on Briti kirjanik, kes alustas luuletaja ja n?itekirjanikuna, mitu tema n?idendit lavastati Royal Shakespeare Companys. Viimastel aastatel on ta ?ha enam esile t?usnud proosakirjanikuna ning k?ik tema romaanid on ?ratanud suurt t?helepanu. Ta on avaldanud ka triloogia, mida ise nimetab elavaks autobiograafiaks, sest ta ei ole neid raamatuid kirjutanud mitte tagantj?rele tark olles, vaid keset elutormi. Romaani „Mees, kes n?gi k?ike“ alguses on noor ajaloolane Saul Adler kutsutud kommunistlikku Ida-Berliini uurimist??d tegema ning ta on n?ustunud vastutasuks n?itama sealset elu soodsas valguses. Ta tahab viia oma t?lgi…

Winner of the Los Angeles Times Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose
Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, the Washington Post, TIME, and Kirkus
A Millions Most Anticipated Book of the Year
A USA Today Book Not to Miss
A LitHub Best-Reviewed Book of the Year

Real Estate is the third and final installment in three-time Booker Prize nominated Deborah Levy’s Living Autobiography series: an exhilarating, thought-provoking and boldly intimate meditation on home and the specters that haunt it in our patriarchal society.

“Three bicycles. Seven ghosts. A crumbling apartment block on the hill. Fame. Tenderness. The statue of Peter Pan. Silk. Melancholy. The banana tree. A love story.”

Virginia Woolf wrote that in order to be a writer, a woman needs a room of one’s own. Now, in Real Estate, acclaimed author Deborah Levy concludes her ground-breaking trilogy of living autobiographies with an exhilarating, boldly intimate meditation on home and the specters that haunt it.

In this vibrant memoir, Levy employs her characteristic indelible writing, sharp wit, and acute insights to craft a searing examination of womanhood and ownership. Her inventory of possessions, real and imagined, pushes readers to question our cultural understanding of belonging and belongings and to consider the value of a woman’s intellectual and personal life.

Blending personal history, gender politics, philosophy, and literary theory, Real Estate is a brilliant, compulsively readable narrative.

Комплект из двух книг. «Заплыв домой» Когда две семейные пары приезжают на виллу недалеко от Ниццы, их ждет сюрприз - выходящая из бассейна обнаженная женщина. Ее зовут Китти Френч, она называет себя ботаником и странно себя ведет. Эта женщина-загадка внесет раздор в хрупкое устройство семьи. Кто она на самом деле? Что она делает на вилле? И почему ей разрешают остаться? «Заплыв домой» - роман с секретами. И главное, что волнует автора, - непознаваемая сущность человека. «Горячее молоко» Молодая героиня София, сменившая профессию антрополога на работу официантки, приезжает с больной матерью Розой в испанский городок. Между хрупкой и неуверенной в собственном будущем Софией и властной Розой намечается конфликт: Роза относится к дочери как к служанке и недовольна ее пассивностью и холодностью. Личная драма дочери постепенно перерастает в нечто большее: Испания превращается в мифический берег, с медузами, таинственными целителями, странными предзнаменованиями. «Горячее молоко» - роман-мираж, поэтичный и переливчатый.