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The Position of Spoons: and other intimacies
Deborah Levy
The Position of Spoons: and other intimacies
Deborah Levy
In 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.
288 pages
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | November 7, 2024 |
ISBN13 | 9780241674505 |
Publishers | Penguin Books Ltd |
Pages | 240 |
Dimensions | 145 × 225 × 24 mm · 348 g |
Language | English |
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