Deborah Levy is the author of seven novels- Beautiful Mutants,
Swallowing Geography, The Unloved, Billy and Girl, Swimming Home,
Hot Milk and The Man Who Saw Everything. She has been shortlisted
twice each for the Goldsmiths Prize and the Man Booker Prize. Her
short story collection, Black Vodka, was nominated for the
International Frank O'Connor Short Story Award and was broadcast on
BBC Radio 4, as were her acclaimed dramatizations of Freud's iconic
case studies, Dora and The Wolfman. She has also written for The
Royal Shakespeare Company and her pioneering theatre writing is
collected in Levy- Plays 1. Her work is widely translated.
Deborah Levy is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She is
also the author of a formally innovative and emotionally daring
trilogy of memoirs, a living autobiography on writing, gender
politics and philosophy. The first two volumes, Things I Don't Want
to Know and The Cost of Living, won the Prix Femina Etranger 2020.
The final volume, Real Estate, will be published in Spring 2021.
A beautifully crafted and thought-provoking snapshot of a life
*Evening Standard*
One of those wise books where you want to underline every
sentence
*Good Housekeeping*
Her reflections on domesticity, freedom and romance are so
beautiful, I found myself underlining multiple sentences a page.
Wry, warm and uplifting, it's a book I'll return to again and
again.
*Stylist*
The narrator of Real Estate is drily funny, irreverent, curious,
even wise; she makes the reader want her for a companion . . . each
of the books [in Levy's living autobiography series] bears several
re-readings; together, they offer one version of how a woman might
continually rewrite her own story.
*The Observer*
Levy is experimenting with language in subversive ways
*Literary Review*
This is a work about what it means to be a writer: its
reinventions, isolations, self-interrogations, its shifting penury
and riches, both emotional and financial. . . [Levy's living
autobiography series is] a glittering triple echo of books that are
as much philosophical discourse as a manifesto for living and
writing.
*Financial Times*
Lyrical sentences come naturally, full of cadence . . . She's
particularly touching on the love between mothers and daughters,
and funny too . . . Real Estate is a book to dive into. Come on in,
the water's lovely.
*Daily Telegraph*
Her voice - at once jokey and elliptical - is so casually intimate
that it feels like catching up with an old friend . . . In three
moving memoirs, Levy has perfectly fused the act of writing with
the art of living.
*i*
Levy's intellectual energy is as frenetic as [the] dance floor, her
memoirs a string of disparate pearls that entwine travelogue with
philosophy and memory with literature
*i*
Expect fierce prose and bold meditations on what it means to be a
woman.
*Red*
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