Real Estate: Living Autobiography 3

From one of the great thinkers and writers of our time comes the unmissable final instalment in Deborah Levys critically acclaimed Living Autobiography.A beautifully crafted and thought-provoking snapshot of a life The Evening Standard_________________________________ I began to wonder what myself and all unwritten and unseen women would possess in their property portfolios at the end of their lives. Literally her physical property and possessions and then everything else she valued though it might not be valued by society. What might she claim own discard and bequeath? Or is she the real estate owned by patriarchy? In this sense Real Estate is a tricky business. We rent it and buy it sell and inherit it - but we must also knock it down.Following the critical acclaim of Things I Dont Want to Know and The Cost of Living this final volume of Deborah Levys Living Autobiography is an exhilarating thought-provoking and boldly intimate meditation on home and the spectres that haunt it. _________________________________Real Estate is a book to dive into. Come on in the waters lovely The Daily Telegraph Her reflections on domesticity freedom and romance are so beautiful I found myself underlining multiple sentences a page. Wry warm and uplifting its a book Ill return to again and again Stylist[Levys living autobiography series is] a glittering triple echo of books that are as much philosophical discourse as a manifesto for living and writing Financial Times Review A beautifully crafted and thought-provoking snapshot of a life ―Evening StandardOne of those wise books where you want to underline every sentence ―Good HousekeepingHer reflections on domesticity freedom and romance are so beautiful I found myself underlining multiple sentences a page. Wry warm and uplifting its a book Ill return to again and again. ―StylistThe narrator ofReal Estate is drily funny irreverent curious even wise; she makes the reader want her for a companion . . . each of the books [in Levys living autobiography series] bears several re-readings; together they offer one version of how a woman might continually rewrite her own story. ―The ObserverLevy is experimenting with language in subversive ways ―Literary ReviewThis is a work about what it means to be a writer: its reinventions isolations self-interrogations its shifting penury and riches both emotional and financial. . . [Levys living autobiography series is] a glittering triple echo of books that are as much philosophical discourse as a manifesto for living and writing. ―Financial TimesLyrical sentences come naturally full of cadence . . . Shes particularly touching on the love between mothers and daughters and funny too . . .Real Estate is a book to dive into. Come on in the waters lovely. ―Daily TelegraphHer voice - at once jokey and elliptical - is so casually intimate that it feels like catching up with an old friend . . . In three moving memoirs Levy has perfectly fused the act of writing with the art of living. ―iLevys intellectual energy is as frenetic as [the] dance floor her memoirs a string of disparate pearls that entwine travelogue with philosophy and memory with literature ―iExpect fierce prose and bold meditations on what it means to be a woman. ―Red About the Author Deborah Levy is the author of seven novels: Beautiful Mutants Swallowing Geography The Unloved Billy and Girl Swimming Home Hot Milk and The Man Who Saw Everything. She has been shortlisted twice each for the Goldsmiths Prize and the Man Booker Prize. Her short story collection Black Vodka was nominated for the International Frank OConnor Short Story Award and was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 as were her acclaimed dramatizations of Freuds iconic case studies Dora and The Wolfman. She has also written for The Royal Shakespeare Company and her pioneering theatre writing is collected