Billy and Girl - Softcover

Levy, Deborah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0747531684 ISBN 13: 9780747531685

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 1997

Synopsis

Billy England and his sister Girl are clever, stylish and damaged. Billy is a teenage catastrophe theorist which is handy since their mother is missing, and when they last saw their father his Elvis hair was in flames. They decide to sell the pain of their childhoods to the American chat shows.

About this title

Review

"Best of all is Levy's smart, modern prose style. The South-African-born Londoner writes with a sensibility once called "Beat." An excellent, entertaining selection."?-- "Booklist"

"An ambitious work by the author of "Beautiful Mutant"s, this complex and touching novel explores the themes of identity and a missing moral center with rare aplomb."?-- "PW"

About the Author

Deborah Levy trained at Dartington College of Arts leaving in 1981 to write a number of plays, highly acclaimed for their "intellectual rigour, poetic fantasy and visual imagination," including "Pax," "Heresies" for the Royal Shakespeare Company, "Clam," "Call Blue Jane," "Shiny Nylon," "Honey Babu Middle England," "Pushing the Prince into Denmark," and "Macbeth-False Memories," some of which are published in "Levy: Plays 1."

Deborah wrote and published her first novel "Beautiful Mutants," when she was 27 years old. The experience of not having to give her words to a director, actors and designer to interpret, was so exhilarating, she wrote a few more. These include "Swallowing Geography," "The Unloved," and "Billy and Girl." She has always written across a number of art forms (see Bookworks and Collaborations with visual artists) and was Fellow in Creative Arts at Trinity College, Cambridge from 1989-1991.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0747531684
• ISBN 13: 9780747531685
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 192