{"product_id":"real-estate-a-living-autobiography-9781635572216","title":"Real Estate: A Living Autobiography","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose\u003cbr\u003eNamed a Best Book of the Year by NPR, the \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTIME\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eMillions\u003c\/i\u003e Most Anticipated Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e Book Not to Miss\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eLitHub \u003c\/i\u003eBest-Reviewed Book of the Year \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eReal Estate\u003c\/i\u003e is the third and final installment in three-time Booker Prize nominated Deborah Levy's Living Autobiography series: an exhilarating, thought-provoking and boldly intimate meditation on home and the specters that haunt it in our patriarchal society. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Three bicycles. Seven ghosts. A crumbling apartment block on the hill. Fame. Tenderness. The statue of Peter Pan. Silk. Melancholy. The banana tree. A love story.\"\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVirginia Woolf wrote that in order to be a writer, a woman needs a room of one's own. Now, in \u003ci\u003eReal Estate\u003c\/i\u003e, acclaimed author Deborah Levy concludes her ground-breaking trilogy of living autobiographies with an exhilarating, boldly intimate meditation on home and the specters that haunt it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this vibrant memoir, Levy employs her characteristic indelible writing, sharp wit, and acute insights to craft a searing examination of womanhood and ownership. Her inventory of possessions, real and imagined, pushes readers to question our cultural understanding of belonging and belongings and to consider the value of a woman's intellectual and personal life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBlending personal history, gender politics, philosophy, and literary theory, \u003ci\u003eReal Estate\u003c\/i\u003e is a brilliant, compulsively readable narrative.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDeborah Levy \u003c\/b\u003ewrites fiction, plays, and poetry. Her work has been staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company, broadcast on the BBC, and widely translated. The author of highly praised novels, including \u003ci\u003eThe Man Who Saw Everything\u003c\/i\u003e (longlisted for the Booker Prize), \u003ci\u003eHot Milk \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSwimming Home\u003c\/i\u003e (both Man Booker Prize finalists), \u003ci\u003eThe Unloved, and Billy and Girl, \u003c\/i\u003ethe acclaimed story collection\u003ci\u003e Black Vodka\u003c\/i\u003e, and two parts of her working autobiography, \u003ci\u003eThings I Don't Want to Know\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Cost of Living\u003c\/i\u003e, she lives in London. Levy is a Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50442321395986,"sku":"9781635572216","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c27a0ba2-6fac-40dd-9894-6f9a0ff19e5c.jpg?v=1729670753","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/real-estate-a-living-autobiography-9781635572216","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}