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In *The Cost of Living*, poet and novelist Deborah Levy offers a candid, narrowly focused memoir that examines the costs women pay for challenging entrenched social hierarchies. Drawing on the work of Simone de Beauvoir, James Baldwin, Elena Ferrante, Marguerite Duras, David Lynch and Emily Dickinson, Levy explores contemporary womanhood in flux and the struggle to create meaning, value and pleasure in a world that often marginalizes female voices.
First publish date: 2018
Genre: Biography & Autobiography/Autobiography
Authors: Deborah Levy
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