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Checkout 19

Claire-Louise Bennet

Vintage Publishing

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'We read in order to come to live'.

With fierce imagination, a woman revisits the moments that shape her life; from crushes on teachers to navigating relationships in a fast-paced world; from overhearing her grandmothers' peculiar stories to nurturing her own personal freedom and a boundless love of literature.

Fusing fantasy with lived experience, Checkout 19 is a vivid and mesmerising journey through the small traumas and triumphs that define us - as readers, as writers, as human beings.

'Reading ​Checkout 19 filled me with joy, it is ​so good! The writing is exceptional; rich, playful and at the same time full of presence and urgency. It is a book about literature, how reading both expands our world and takes us away from it, and it is also a book about life {when it is] at its most vulnerable, and these two merge into the question: how can we take back our own story? What ​is our own story? Bennett writes like no one else, she is in complete control of the language, skilfull and innovative in an almost joycean way. She is a rare talent, and ​Checkout 19 is a masterful novel'. ​ Karl Ove Knausgaard

Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Year: 2022
ISBN: 9781529114997
Pages: 240
Paperback
A New York Times 10 Best Books of 2022 Selection.
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