The Position of Spoons, 9780241674505
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Intimate thoughts, artistic muses, and a life measured in words.
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The Position of Spoons

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  • Hardcover

    240 pages

  • Release Date

    12 November 2024

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Summary

The Intimate World of Deborah Levy: Musings on Life, Art, and the Self

In The Position of Spoons, Deborah Levy welcomes readers into her inner world, sharing intimate thoughts and experiences as she measures her life against the literary and artistic figures that have inspired her.

From Marguerite Duras to Colette and Ballard, and from Lee Miller to Francesca Woodman and Paula Rego, the richness of their work illuminates the richness of Levy’s own.

Each page…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780241674505
ISBN-10:0241674506
Author:Deborah Levy
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Hamish Hamilton Ltd
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:240
Release Date:12 November 2024
Weight:400g
Dimensions:222mm x 138mm x 25mm
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Critics Review

A major contemporary writer who never pulls her punches * Independent * Deborah Levy’s work inspires a devotion few literary authors ever achieve * Guardian * Levy’s 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 * i *

About The Author

Deborah Levy

Deborah Levy is the author of several novels including August Blue, Hot Milk and Swimming Home, alongside a formally innovative, critically acclaimed ‘living autobiography’ trilogy- Things I Don’t Want to Know, The Cost of Living and Real Estate. She has been shortlisted twice each for the Goldsmiths Prize and Booker Prize and won the Prix Femina Etranger. She has also written for The Royal Shakespeare Company and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

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