{"product_id":"billy-girl-paperback","title":"Billy \u0026 Girl - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDeborah Levy\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this brilliant, inventive, tragic farce, Deborah Levy creates the ultimate dysfunctional kids, Billy and his sister Girl. Apparently abandoned years ago by their parents, they now live alone somewhere in England. Girl spends much of her time trying to find their mother, going to strangers' doors and addressing whatever Prozac woman who answers as \"Mom.\" Billy spends his time fantasizing a future in which he will be famous, perhaps in the United States as a movie star, or as a psychiatrist, or as a doctor to blondes with breast enlargements, or as the author of \"Billy England's Book of Pain.\" Together they both support and torture each other, barely able to remember their pasts but intent on forging a future that will bring them happiness and reunite them with the ever-elusive Mom. Billy and Girl are every boy and girl reeling from the pain of their childhoods, forgetting what they need to forget, inventing worlds they think will be better, but usually just prolonging nightmares as they begin to create--or so it seems--alternative personalities that will allow them to survive and conquer and punish. In the end, the reader is as bewildered as Billy and Girl--have they found Mom and a semblance of family, or are, they completely out of control and ready to explode?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDeborah Levy\u003c\/b\u003e writes fiction, plays, and poetry. Her work has been staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company, and she is the author of highly praised books including \u003ci\u003eThe Unloved, Swallowing Geography, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBeautiful Mutants\u003c\/i\u003e. Her novel \u003ci\u003eSwimming Home\u003c\/i\u003e was shortlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize, 2012 Specsavers National Book awards, and 2013 Jewish Quarterly Wingate Prize. Her recent short story collection, \u003ci\u003eBlack Vodka\u003c\/i\u003e, was broadcast on BBC Radio 4. \u003ci\u003eThings I Don't Want to Know\u003c\/i\u003e is the title of Levy's sparkling response to George Orwell's essay 'Why I Write', an autobiographical essay on writing, gender politics and philosophy. Her collection of poetry, \u003ci\u003eAn Amorous Discourse in The Suburbs of Hell\u003c\/i\u003e, was inspired by William Blake's vision of angels perched in a tree on Peckham Common.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 26, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47244356845817,"sku":"9781628975031","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/ZXE3Z2gvL2NhNUxRK1lZRlVYOFlwUT09.webp?v=1768591247","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/billy-girl-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}