A NEW YORK TIMES 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER AND VOGUE Bennett writes like no one else.
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..
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.
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. . . . -Karl Ove Knausgaard From the author of the dazzling.
She is a rare talent, and Checkout 19 is a masterful novel.
A NEW YORK TIMES 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER AND VOGUE Bennett writes like no one else
