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An Amorous Discourse in the Suburbs of Hell

by Deborah Levy
& Other Stories. Oct. 2015. 96p. ISBN 9781908276469. pap. $12.95; ebk. ISBN 9781908276476. POETRY
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The author of novels (Man Booker finalist Swimming Home), stories (Black Vodka, short-listed for the BBC International Short Story Award), and plays (some staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company), Levy shows her narrative roots in this dialog between "she," a sort of fallen angel, with "starry tattoos," "All wonderful and winged," and "He," who's "suburbia's satisfied son." She tells him she's there "to rub my skin/ against/ the regularity of your habits," and if her fiery free-spiritedness doesn't entirely shake him, it will delight readers.
Reviewed by Barbara Hoffert , Nov 15, 2014
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