{"product_id":"the-position-of-spoons-deborah-levy","title":"The Position of Spoons (Deborah Levy)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom twice Booker-shortlisted author Deborah Levy, a moving and revelatory collection exploring the muses that have shaped her life and work as a writer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Position of Spoons\u003c\/i\u003e, Deborah Levy traces and measures her life against the backdrop of the literary and artistic muses that have shaped her - including a letter to her dying mother and to an absent friend.  This volume illuminates and celebrates a rich and varied intellectual inheritance - and reflects on how it has enriched the author's own work. Taking in questions of mortality, language, gender, place, consumerism and everyday living, the acclaimed novelist invites her reader behind the curtain of a creative life, 'in which the position of the spoon is always changing'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Levy's writing is dreamy but diamond-sharp, prismatic, droll, [and] devastating . . . Each sentence precisely pins down a feeling' \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Writing is self-excavation, a painful digging into the archaeology of our own experience. Levy is good on the prices we find ourselves paying: for art, for love, for fitting in . . . [She] plunges into the depths, taking us with her' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eDeborah Levy is the author of several novels including \u003ci\u003eAugust Blue\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHot Milk \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSwimming Home, \u003c\/i\u003ealongside a formally innovative, critically acclaimed 'living autobiography' trilogy: \u003ci\u003eThings I Don't Want to Know, The Cost of Living \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Real Estate. \u003c\/i\u003eShe 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.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), B-format paperback, Englisch, 240 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65779856179549,"sku":"K097939032","price":11.8,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/9793903200001A.jpg?v=1788311362","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/the-position-of-spoons-deborah-levy","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}