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Things I Don't Want to Know

ISBN 
9780241983089
Format 
Paperback
Recommended Price 
R295.00
Published 
June 2018
About the book: 
Taking George Orwell's famous essay, 'Why I Write', as a jumping-off point, Deborah Levy offers her own indispensable reflections of the writing life. With wit, clarity and calm brilliance, she considers how the writer must stake claim to that contested territory and shape it to her need. It is a work of dazzling insight and deep psychological succour, from one of our most vital contemporary writers.
 
This first volume of the trilogy focuses on the writer as a young woman - the confusion and turbulence of youth, and the uncertainties of carving an identity as a writer. The second volume, The Cost of Living,  speaks to the challenges of middle age as a writer and a woman - motherhood, separation, bereavement.
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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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