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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.

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Author : Claire-Louise Bennett
★★★★☆ 3.5 from 5 stars (364 Reviews)
Langue : English
ISBN-10 : 0593420500
File size: 17 MB

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The author says it all in the very first words in the book, a quote from Malina, by Ingeborg Bachmann,"Believe me, expression is insanity, it arises out of our insanity." The book goes on to demonstrate this in multiple ways. The story line veers from reality to unreality and back, blurring the lines the way one suspects a mentally ill person might do. The writing style changes chaoticly, having no logic to its changes, suggesting the narrator is unhinged. Mental illness and suicide figure prominently in the lives of multiple authors mentioned in the book and suicide even is anticipated by the narrator for herself. Mental illness in women and men's historic views of it figure prominently in one section. The last few pages of the book read as if the narrator has completely gone mad. Her last sentence is "Our fingers tingle madly, madly yes, just as if they are coming to life." Madly indeed! This is a remarkable book and well worth your time to read and think, think, rethink. Checkout 19: A Novel Online PDF Kindle telecharger I struggled with this novel. At first I felt lost and confused as I tried to figure out the basic context - as in the who? What? When? Where? However, as I spent more time it was clear this book is unique. The real beauty is the author’s ability to present us with a narrator who really isn’t narrating to us but rather to herself. I may come back and change the stars to lean more positive but for now I’m still pondering. PDF Checkout 19: A Novel pdf epub I never write reviews. This book is extraordinary! If you’re looking for a story like other stories, you may not appreciate it. But if being blindsided by beautiful prose, coming out the other side of a book transformed and illuminated just from the pure imagination of it all, read it and savor it and spread the word. Amazing. ePUB Checkout 19: A Novel pdf epub There are many movies that make making movies seem almost miraculous.  And plenty of songs that celebrate the singing of songs.  This was the first book I ever read that rejoiced in books and reading and writing. Claire-Louise Bennett is Irish and like so many from the Emerald Isle she knows how to spin a yarn.  But her writing is undetermined and illimitable.  She writes with a stream-of-consciousness, pinballing between past and present, reality and fantasy, herself and her characters.  I can't really tell you what Catch 19 was about.  Nor could I put it down.  Every fantastic tangent and run-on sentence and pages-long paragraph was an absolute treat.  In fact many of the passages I reread just to hear her zany, boundless dialogue in my head one more time.This isn’t a book for readers who need action or drama or romance. It’s for the reader who appreciates a unique turn of phrase and a Brobdingnagian vocabulary and will allow themselves to sink deep into a masterful writer’s words. Download (PDF) Checkout 19: A Novel I read a lot of books. This is the first one I can recall that I quit reading after about 40 pages. Just couldn't get into the writing style and story.