![]() Even the derailing of a friendship, in a devastating violation. The growing heaps of other books in which she loses–and finds–herself. 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. As she grows, everything and everyone she encounters become fuel for a burning talent. 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. 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. “Bennett writes like no one else. She is a rare talent, and Checkout 19 is a masterful novel.” –Karl Ove Knausgaardįrom the author of the “dazzling. ![]() NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER AND VOGUE A NEW YORK TIMES 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR AND A NEW YORKER "ESSENTIAL READ" ![]()
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