{"product_id":"9781037802607","title":"The Cost of Living","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the twice-Booker-shortlisted author comes a witty and audacious examination of writing and womanhood\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Life falls apart. We try to get a grip. We try to hold it together. And then we realize that we don't want to hold it together.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCrystalline, witty and audacious, \u003ci\u003eThe Cost of Living\u003c\/i\u003e addresses itself to the dual experiences of writing and of womanhood, examining what is essential in each. Following the acclaimed \u003ci\u003eThings I Don't Want to Know\u003c\/i\u003e, which reflected deeply on the nature of gender politics and a life in letters, \u003ci\u003eThe Cost of Living\u003c\/i\u003e returns to the same subject and to the same life, to find a writer in radical flux. If a woman dismantles her life, expands it and puts it back together in a new shape, how might she describe this new composition? \"Words have to open the mind. When words close the mind you can be sure that someone has been reduced to nothingness.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this elegiac second instalment of her \"living autobiography\", Deborah Levy considers what it means to live with value and meaning and pleasure. \u003ci\u003eThe Cost of Living\u003c\/i\u003e is a vital and astonishing testimony, as distinctive, wide-ranging and original as Levy's acclaimed novels.","brand":"Deborah Levy","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":48026442072286,"sku":"9781037802607","price":22.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0425\/4567\/6440\/files\/BNCImageAPI_5bc9aaf9-8dda-4734-9aef-df4ec2b28f62.jpg?v=1774489713","url":"https:\/\/paragraphbooks.com\/products\/9781037802607","provider":"Librairie Paragraphe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}