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The Cost of Living Spiral-Bound | 2019-10-15

Deborah Levy

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The bestselling exploration of the dimensions of love, marriage, mourning, and kinship from two-time Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy.

What does it cost a woman to unsettle old boundaries and collapse the social hierarchies that make her a minor character in a world not arranged to her advantage?
This vibrant memoir, a portrait of contemporary womanhood in flux, is an urgent quest to find an unwritten major female character who can exist more easily in the world. Levy considers what it means to live with meaning, value, and pleasure, to seize the ultimate freedom of writing our own lives, and reflects on the work of such artists and thinkers as Simone de Beauvoir, James Baldwin, Elena Ferrante, Marguerite Duras, David Lynch, and Emily Dickinson.
The Cost of Living, longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal in Nonfiction, is crucial testimony, as distinctive, witty, complex, and original as Levy's acclaimed novels.

Publisher: Macmillan
Original Binding: Trade Paperback
Pages: 144 pages
ISBN-10: 163557353X
Item Weight: 0.3 lbs
Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.4 x 8.2 inches
"[Levy] is an indelible writer . . . [an] elliptical genius . . . [The Cost of Living] is always a pleasure to consume." --Dwight Garner, The New York Times
"Luminous . . . There's humor here and vulnerability . . . A smart, slim meditation on womanhood informed by Levy's wide reading." --Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air
"Delivered in gorgeous, disciplined prose. A bracing, searing inquiry into one woman's life that manages to tell the truth of all women's lives. I loved it." --Dani Shapiro
"Powerful." --O, The Oprah Magazine

Deborah Levy writes fiction, plays, and poetry. Her work has been staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company, broadcast on the BBC, and widely translated. The author of highly praised novels, including Hot Milk and Swimming Home (both Booker Prize finalists), The Unloved, and Billy and Girl, the acclaimed story collection Black Vodka, and part one of her working autobiography, Things I Don't Want to Know, she lives in London. Levy is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.