Checkout 19 by Claire-Louise Bennett

Checkout 19 by Claire-Louise Bennett

A NEW YORK TIMES 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR AND A NEW YORKER ESSENTIAL READ

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER AND VOGUE

Bennett writes like no one else. She is a rare talent, and Checkout 19 is a masterful novel. -Karl Ove Knausgaard

From the author of the dazzling. . . . and daring Pond (O magazine), the adventures of a young woman discovering her own genius, through the people she meets-and dreams up-along the way.

In a working-class town in a county west of London, a schoolgirl scribbles stories in the back pages of her exercise book, intoxicated by the first sparks of her imagination. As she grows, everything and everyone she encounters become fuel for a burning talent. The large Russian man in the ancient maroon car who careens around the grocery store where she works as a checkout clerk, and slips her a copy of Beyond Good and Evil. The growing heaps of other books in which she loses-and finds-herself. Even the derailing of a friendship, in a devastating violation. The thrill of learning to conjure characters and scenarios in her head is matched by the exhilaration of forging her own way in the world, the two kinds of ingenuity kindling to a brilliant conflagration.

Exceeding the extraordinary promise of Bennett's mold-shattering debut, Checkout 19 is a radical affirmation of the power of the imagination and the magic escape those who master it open to us all.

Claire-Louise Bennett's short fiction and essays have been published in The Moth, The Irish Times, and other publications. She was awarded the inaugural White Review Short Story Prize in 2013. Pond is her first book. Bennett lives in Galway, Ireland.

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ISBN 13	9780593420492
ISBN 10	0593420497
Titel	Checkout 19
Autor	Claire-Louise Bennett
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	Penguin Putnam Inc
Erscheinungsjahr	2022-03-01
Seitenanzahl	288
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.