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The Cost of Living

ISBN 
9780241977569
Format 
Paperback
Recommended Price 
R295.00
Published 
March 2019
About the book: 

What does it mean to be free — as an artist, a woman, a mother or daughter? And what is the price of that freedom?

In this dazzling memoir, Deborah Levy confronts the essential questions of modern womanhood with humour, pragmatism, and profoundly resonant wisdom. Reflecting on the period when she wrote the  Man Booker Prize -shortlisted  Hot Milk  — when her mother was dying, her daughters were leaving home, her marriage was coming to an end — she is characteristically eloquent on the social expectations and surreal realities of daily life. And expanding far beyond these bounds, she describes a uniquely frank, wise and thrilling manifesto for female experience: embracing the exhilarating terror of freedom, seeking to understand what that freedom could mean and how it might  feel.

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About the Author

Deborah Levy is the author of several novels including  August Blue, Hot Milk  and  Swimming Home,  alongside a formally innovative, critically acclaimed  living autobiography  trilogy:  Things I Don't Want to Know, The Cost of Living  and  Real Estate.  She has been shortlisted twice each for the  Goldsmiths Prize  and  Booker Prize  and won the  Prix Femina Étranger.  She has also written for the  Royal Shakespeare Company  and is a Fellow of the  Royal Society of Literature.

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