Real Estate Deborah Levy by Deborah Levy 9780241977583, 0241977584, B08CZHWSN7 instant download after payment.

From one of the great thinkers and writers of our time, comes the highly anticipated final instalment in Deborah Levy's critically acclaimed Living Autobiography

"I can't think of any writer aside from Virginia Woolf who writes better about what it is to be a woman."  -  The Observer on The Cost Of Living

Following the international critical acclaim of The Cost of Living, this final volume of Deborah Levy's Living Autobiography is an exhilarating, thought-provoking and boldly intimate meditation on home and the spectres that haunt it. 

'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 down.'.

"[A] wonderful new book... Levy, whose prose is at once declarative and concrete and touched with an almost oracular pithiness, has a gift for imbuing ordinary observations with the magic of metaphor... The new volume, which follows the death of one version of the self, describes the uncertain birth of another... She herself is not always a purely likable, or reliable, narrator of her own experience, and her book is richer for it."  -  Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker

'Three bicycles. Seven ghosts. A crumbling apartment block on the hill. Fame. Tenderness. The statue of Peter Pan. Silk. Melancholy. The banana tree. A Pandemic. A love story.'