Real Estate
WINNER of the 2021 Los Angeles Times-Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose
From one of the great thinkers and writers of our time, comes the highly anticipated final installment in Deborah Levy's critically acclaimed "living autobiography" series.
"I began to wonder what myself and all unwritten and unseen women would possess in their property portfolios at the end of their lives. Literally, her physical property and possessions, and then everything else she valued, though it might not be valued by society. What might she claim, own, discard and bequeath? Or is she the real estate, owned by patriarchy? In this sense, Real Estate is a tricky business. We rent it and buy it, sell and inherit it--but we must also knock it…
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May 25, 2021Deborah Levy is the author of seven novels, including Beautiful Mutants, Swallowing Geography, The Unloved, Billy and Girl, Swimming Home and Hot Milk , and two volumes of memoir, Things I Don't Want to Know and The Cost of Living . Both Swimming Home and Hot Milk were shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Her short story collection, Black Vodka , was nominated for the International Frank O'Connor short story award and was broadcast on BBC Radio 4, as were her acclaimed dramatizations of Freud's iconic case studies, Dora , and The Wolfman.Levy has written for The Royal Shakespeare Company, and her pioneering theater writing is collected in Levy: Plays 1 . Deborah Levy is a Fellow of The Royal…
The Position of Spoons
Deborah Levy
August Blue
Deborah Levy
Real Estate
Deborah Levy
The Man Who Saw Everything
Deborah Levy
Hot Milk
Deborah Levy
Things I Don't Want to Know
Deborah Levy