The Rules Do Not Apply
$38.11
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
11 September 2018
Summary
‘Every deep feeling a human is capable of will be shaken loose by this short, but profound book’ - David Sedaris
‘I wanted what we all want: everything. We want a mate who feels like family and a lover who is exotic, surprising. We want to be youthful adventurers and middle-aged mothers. We want intimacy and autonomy, safety and stimulation, reassurance and novelty, coziness and thrills. But we can’t have it all.’
Ariel Levy picks you up and hurls you through the story of how …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349005324 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 034900532X |
| Author: | Ariel Levy |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Fleet |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 11 September 2018 |
| Weight: | 196g |
| Dimensions: | 200mm x 124mm x 17mm |
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Critics Review
Every deep feeling a human is capable of will be shaken loose by this short, but profound book. Ariel Levy has taken grief, and made art out of it
Levy is a fantastic writer and reporter, cool-headed, witty and without self-pity - Rachel Cooke, ObserverBy chapter three of The Rules Do Not Apply I was ordering copies for every woman I love … Levy’s honesty and grief are dazzling - Sunday TimesAriel Levy is a writer of uncompromising honesty, remarkable clarity and surprising humor, gathered from the wreckage of tragedy. Her account of life doing its darnedest to topple her, and her refusal to be knocked down, will leave you shaken and inspired. Her ersatz brand of zen wisdom is one we all need in our lives. I am the better for having read this bookAbout The Author
Ariel Levy
Ariel Levy joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 2008 and received the National Magazine Award for Essays and Criticism in 2014 for her piece ‘Thanksgiving in Mongolia’. She is the author of the book Female Chauvinist Pigs and was a contributing editor at New York for twelve years.
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