The Cost of Living
Book formats
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Book short specifications
- Author
- Deborah Levy
- Pages
- 208
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Series
- Living Autobiography
- Language
- english
- Release date
- February 7, 2019
- ISBN
- 978-0-241-97756-9
- GTIN
- 9780241977569
- Weight, g
- 150
- Publisher's website
- penguin.co.uk
About
A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURY
The powerful second memoir from the twice-Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Hot Milk and Swimming Home
'I just haven't stopped reading it ... it talks so beautifully about being a woman' Billie Piper on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs
'Life falls apart. We try to get a grip and hold it together. And then we realise we don't want to hold it together . . .'
Praise for The Cost of Living:
'It 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. Wonderful. Not so much a memoir as an eloquent manifesto' Guardian
'Wise, subtle and ironic, Levy's every sentence is a masterpiece of clarity and poise ... a brilliant writer' Daily Telegraph
'A graceful and lyrical rumination on the questions, "What is a woman for? What should a woman be?" ' Tatler
'I can't think of any writer aside from Virginia Woolf who writes better about what it is to be a woman' Observer
'Extraordinary and beautiful, suffused with wit and razor sharp insights' Financial Times
'A heady, absorbing read' Evening Standard