{"product_id":"the-cost-of-living-deborah-levy-9781635571912","title":"The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe bestselling exploration of the dimensions of love, marriage, mourning, and kinship from two-time Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA\u003ci\u003e New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA New York Public Library Best Nonfiction Book of 2018\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat does it cost a woman to unsettle old boundaries and collapse the social hierarchies that make her a minor character in a world not arranged to her advantage? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis vibrant memoir, a portrait of contemporary womanhood in flux, is an urgent quest to find an unwritten major female character who can exist more easily in the world. Levy considers what it means to live with meaning, value, and pleasure, to seize the ultimate freedom of writing our own lives, and reflects on the work of such artists and thinkers as Simone de Beauvoir, James Baldwin, Elena Ferrante, Marguerite Duras, David Lynch, and Emily Dickinson. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Cost of Living\u003c\/i\u003e, longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal in Nonfiction, is crucial testimony, as distinctive, witty, complex, and original as Levy's acclaimed novels.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Deborah Levy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 163557191X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781635571912\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/10\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.70w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/26\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2018","brand":"Deborah Levy","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43984792486143,"sku":"9781635571912","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ff603286-b3a1-4ce3-9c77-451ca4bcc918.jpg?v=1683274196","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-cost-of-living-deborah-levy-9781635571912","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}