The cost of living

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Sinopse

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 about how to find a new way of livingObserverExtraordinary and beautiful, suffused with wit and razor sharp insightsFinancial TimesIt 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 is not so much a memoir as an eloquent manifesto for what Levy calls 'a new way of living' in the post-familial worldGuardianIngenious, practical and dryly amused... This is a manifesto for a risky, radical kind of life, out of your depth but swimming all the sameNew StatesmanWise, 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 plaqueTelegraphA heady, absorbing readEvening StandardThis, 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 yearSinead GleesonBoth 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.Vogue

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Autor: Deborah Levy

Autor

DEBORAH LEVY

Deborah Levy nasceu em Joanesburgo, África do Sul, em 1959. Seu pai, o historiador Norman Levy, um judeu de origem lituana e membro do partido social-democrata African National Congress, foi preso devido à sua atuação política antiapartheid. A autora tinha nove anos quando ele foi libertado, ainda em regime de prisão domiciliar, o que motivou a mudança da família para a Inglaterra. Estudou no extinto Dartington College of Arts até 1981, quando passou a escrever suas primeiras peças de teatro para a Royal Shakespeare Company. Em 1986, publicou Beautiful Mutants, primeiro dos seus seis romances, pelos quais recebeu diversos prêmios internacionais. Foi duas vezes finalista do Man Booker Prize, com Nadando de volta para casa e Hot Milk (2016), livros em que explora questões sobre identidade, exílio e deslocamento.