The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
Autor Deborah Levyen Limba Engleză Hardback – 10 iul 2018
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
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.
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.