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The Position of Spoons: and other intimacies

ISBN 
9780241674505
Format 
Hardback
Recommended Price 
R530.00
Published 
December 2024
About the book: 

In  The Position of Spoons,  Deborah Levy invites the reader into the interiors of her world, sharing her most intimate thoughts and experiences, as she traces and measures her life against the backdrop of the literary and artistic muses that have shaped her.

From  Marguerite Duras  to  Colette  and  Ballard,  and from  Lee Miller  to  Francesca Woodman  and  Paula Rego,  we can relish here the richness of their work and, in turn, the richness of the author’s own.

Each page draws upon Levy’s life in exalting ways, encapsulating the wonderful precision and astonishing depth of her writing, as she seamlessly shifts between and meditates on questions of mortality, language, suburbia, gender, consumerism and the poetics of everyday living. From the child born in South Africa, to her teenage years in Britain, to her travels across the world as a young woman, each page is a beautiful, tender composition of the questioning self: a portrait of Deborah Levy’s writing life and intellectual vitality in all of its dimensions.

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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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