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The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography

Autor Deborah Levy
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 10 iul 2018
The bestselling exploration of the dimensions of love, marriage, mourning, and kinship from two-time Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy.
To strip the wallpaper off the fairy tale of The Family House in which the comfort and happiness of men and children has been the priority is to find behind it an unthanked, unloved, neglected, exhausted woman.
The Cost of Living explores the subtle erasure of women's names, spaces, and stories in the modern everyday. In this "living autobiography" infused with warmth and humor, Deborah Levy critiques the roles that society assigns to us, and reflects on the politics of breaking with the usual gendered rituals. What does it cost a woman to unsettle old boundaries and collapse the social hierarchies that make her a minor character in a world not arranged to her advantage?
Levy draws on her own experience of attempting to live with pleasure, value, and meaning--the making of a new kind of family home, the challenges of her mother's death--and those of women she meets in everyday life, from a young female traveler reading in a bar who suppresses her own words while she deflects an older man's advances, to a particularly brilliant student, to a kindly and ruthless octogenarian bookseller who offers the author a place to write at a difficult time in her life. The Cost of Living is urgent, essential reading, a crystalline manifesto for turbulent times.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781635571912
ISBN-10: 163557191X
Pagini: 144
Dimensiuni: 144 x 216 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing

Notă biografică

Deborah Levy writes fiction, plays, and poetry. Her work has been staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company, broadcast on the BBC, and widely translated. The author of highly praised novels, including The Man Who Saw Everything (longlisted for the Booker Prize), Hot Milk and Swimming Home (both Man Booker Prize finalists), The Unloved, and Billy and Girl, the acclaimed story collection Black Vodka, and two parts of her working autobiography, Things I Don't Want to Know and The Cost of Living, she lives in London. Levy is a Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature.

Recenzii

Deborah Levy is a most generous writer. What is wonderful about this short, sensual, embattled memoir is that it is not only about the painful landmarks in her life - the end of a marriage , the death of a mother -it is about what it is to be alive. I can't think of any other writer aside from Virginia Woolf who writes better about the liminal, the domestic, the non-event, and what it is to be a woman...This is a little book about a big subject. It is abouthow to find a new way of living
Extraordinary and beautiful, suffused with wit and razor sharp insights
It is the story of every woman throughout history who has expended her love and labour on making a home that turns out to serve the needs of everyone except herself...A piece of work that isnot so much a memoir as an eloquent manifestofor what Levy calls 'a new way of living' in the post-familial world
Ingenious, practical and dryly amused...This is a manifesto for a risky, radical kind of life, out of your depth but swimming all the same
Wise, subtle and ironic, Levy is a brilliant writer...Each sentence is a small masterpiece of clarity and poise. That shed should be endowed with a blue plaque

A heady, absorbing read
This, from Deborah Levy, is exceptional. A memoir of life, art and separation. How to write when you're broke, have no writing space, are a parent. Also: crushed chickens, electric bikes, plumbing. Out in May and an early contender for one of the books of the year
Both memoir and feminist manifesto, her writing focuses so sharply on what it means to be alive that she's given me much-needed clarity...Levy subtly informs us about what it is to be a woman.