“贝内特的写作与众不同。她是一个罕见的天才，而《19号结帐》是一部大师级的小说。”——卡尔·奥夫·克努斯加德
被《秃鹫》、《魅力》、《喧闹》和《灯塔》评为2022年最受期待的一本书
来自《炫目的……和大胆的》Pond（O杂志）的作者，一位年轻女性通过一路上遇到的人——以及她梦寐以求的人——发现自己天才的冒险故事。
在伦敦西部一个县的一个工人阶级小镇上，一名女学生在练习本的背面潦草写下故事，陶醉于她最初的想象火花。随着她的成长，她遇到的每一件事和每一个人都会成为一个炙手可热的天才的燃料。一个身材高大的俄罗斯人开着一辆古褐红色的汽车，在杂货店里转来转去，她在那里做收银员，给她塞了一本《超越善与恶》。她发现自己在一堆堆的书中迷失了自己。甚至一段友谊的破裂，都是一种毁灭性的破坏。学习在脑海中变出人物和场景的兴奋感，与在世界上塑造自己的方式的兴奋感相匹配，这两种独创性点燃了一场辉煌的大火。
《19号结账台》超越了贝内特令人震惊的处女作的非凡承诺，是对想象力力量的彻底肯定，也是对我们所有人开放的魔法逃避。
Checkout 19: A Novel
“Bennett writes like no one else. She is a rare talent, and Checkout 19 is a masterful novel.” –Karl Ove Knausgaard
Named a most anticipated book of 2022 by Vulture, Glamour, Bustle, and Lit Hub
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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