Black Vodka: Ten Stories
"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." —Library Journal, starred review"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." —The Review of Arts, Literature, Philosophy and the Humanities(RALPH magazine)"[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." —Publishers Weekly“One of the most exciting voices in contemporary British fiction . . . sophisticated and astringent.” —The Times Literary Supplement“These ominous, odd, erotic stories burrow deep into your brain.” —Financial Times“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.” —The New Statesman"Fabulously jolting . . . Accomplished and uncanny . . . Powerful." —The Guardian"Levy’s sparse, elegant stories are poetic and faintly surreal." —The Sunday Times"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." —Huffington Post