The Cost of Living

Beschreibung

A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURY<BR>WINNER OF THE PRIX FEMINA ETRANGER 2020<BR><BR>Following on from the critically acclaimed Things I Don't Want to Know, discover the powerful second memoir in Deborah Levy's essential three-part 'Living Autobiography'.<BR><BR> 'I can't think of any writer aside from Virginia Woolf who writes better about what it is to be a woman' Observer<BR> _________________________________<BR><BR>'Life falls apart.<BR> We try to get a grip and hold it together.<BR> And then we realise we don't want to hold it together . . .'<BR><BR> The final instalment in Deborah Levy's critically acclaimed 'Living Autobiography', Real Estate, is available now.<BR>_________________________________<BR><BR><BR>'I just haven't stopped reading it . . . it talks so beautifully about being a woman' Billie Piper on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs<BR><BR>'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.

Wonderful' Guardian<BR><BR> 'Wise, subtle and ironic, Levy's every sentence is a masterpiece of clarity and poise . . . a brilliant writer' Daily Telegraph<BR><BR> 'A graceful and lyrical rumination on the questions, "What is a woman for? What should a woman be?"' Tatler<BR><BR> 'Extraordinary and beautiful, suffused with wit and razor-sharp insights' Financial Times

Angaben vom Händler.