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Checkout 19

Bennett, Claire-Louise. Book - 2022 Adult Book / Fiction / General / Bennett, Claire-Louise, Fiction / Bennett, Claire-Louise None on shelf 30 requests on 2 copies Community Rating: 3.3 out of 5

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"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 in the back pages of her exercise book, thrilling to the first sparks of her own inventiveness. As she grows, she becomes one on whom nothing is lost. Not the novels an eccentric customer slips her at the grocery store where she works as a checkout clerk, or the indelible outline of the careening creature himself. Not the growing heaps of books in which she loses-and finds-herself. Not even the sudden swerve a college friend's mounting envy of her blooming talent takes, derailing in a devastating violation. Threaded through it all, the escapades of her first fully fleshed character-one Tarquin Superbus, bouncing among various time periods and exotic locales-are matched by our delight and exhilaration as the scenarios she is learning to conjure, and the fate she is forging for herself, come together in 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 the rest of us"-- Provided by publisher.

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Really great read submitted by jacquero on August 9, 2022, 11:12am Interesting book written in an explorative style. Hard to put down!

A quiet and unusual book about books submitted by foilista on June 26, 2023, 11:59am This odd (not in a bad way!) novel takes as its subject books - and how the self opens in response to books. Stylistically, it put me in mind of a cross between Anna Burns' Milkman and Sheila Heti's How Should a Person Be?. Its commitment to psychological interiority, particularly in the early pages, takes on an allegorical quality. Although its historical and geographical specificity grows as the novel continues, it nonetheless (perhaps because of its recursive style and interpolation of other imagined narratives) feels like a fable. I enjoyed this book, and I'm looking forward to reading Pond (Bennett's debut).

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PUBLISHED
New York : Riverhead Books, 2022.
Year Published: 2022
Description: 272 pages ; 22 cm
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780593420492
0593420497

SUBJECTS
Women -- Fiction.
Recollection (Psychology) -- Fiction.
Books and reading -- Fiction.
Self-actualization (Psychology) -- Fiction.
Bildungsromans.