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Billy & Girl (Paperback)
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Billy & Girl (Paperback)
Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials
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Loot Price R348
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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?
General
Imprint: |
Dalkey Archive Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Dalkey Archive Essentials |
Release date: |
November 2023 |
Authors: |
Deborah Levy
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Dimensions: |
215 x 139mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
192 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-62897-503-1 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
1-62897-503-2 |
Barcode: |
9781628975031 |
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