Things I Don t Want To Know

This is a new book. Condition: Brand New.

First instalment of Levy's essential 'living autobiography' trilogy - reissued to match the beautiful COST OF LIVING hardback

Taking George Orwell's famous essay, 'Why I Write', as a jumping-off point, Deborah Levy offers her own indispensable reflections of the writing life. With wit, clarity and calm brilliance, she considers how the writer must stake claim to that contested territory and shape it to her need. It is a work of dazzling insight and deep psychological succour, from one of our most vital contemporary writers.

This first volume of the trilogy focuses on the writer as a young woman - the confusion and turbulence of youth, and the uncertainties of carving an identity as a writer. The second volume, The Cost of Living, speaks to the challenges of middle age as a writer and a woman - motherhood, separation, bereavement.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9780241983089
Published: April 2018

Number of pages: 176
Width: 128 mm
Height: 196 mm
Depth: 14 mm

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd