Deborah Levy The Position of Spoons (Hardback) (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Position of SpoonsCondition: NewSubtitle: and other intimaciesISBN-10: 0241674506EAN: 9780241674505ISBN: 9780241674505Publisher: Hamish Hamilton LtdFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 11/07/2024Description: From twice Booker-shortlisted author Deborah Levy, a moving and revelatory collection exploring the muses that have shaped her life and work as a writerIn 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 every day 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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 222mmItem Length: 138mmItem Width: 25mmItem Weight: 400gAuthor: Deborah LevyGenre: Literary CriticismTopic: Gender Sex & Relationships, Society & Culture, BiographyType: SwimmingRelease Year: 2024 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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