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<p><b>To be published simultaneously with <i>Black Vodka</i>, the Man Booker Prize–shortlisted writer's new collection of short stories, a shimmering jewel of a book about writing.</b><br><br>Blending personal history, gender politics, philosophy, and literary theory into a luminescent treatise on writing, love, and loss, Things I Don't Want to Know is Deborah Levy's witty response to George Orwell's influential essay “Why I Write.” Orwell identified four reasons he was driven to hammer at his typewriter-political purpose, historical impulse, sheer egoism, and aesthetic enthusiasm-and Levy's newest work riffs on these same commitments from a female writer's perspective. <br><br>As she struggles to balance womanhood, motherhood, and her writing career, Levy identifies some of the real-life experiences that have shaped her novels, including her family's emigration from South Africa in the era of apartheid; her teenage years in the UK where she played at being a writer in the company of builders and bus drivers in cheap diners; and her theater-writing days touring Poland in the midst of Eastern Europe's economic crisis, where she observed how a soldier tenderly kissed the women in his life goodbye.<br><br>Spanning continents (Africa and Europe) and decades (we meet the author at seven, fifteen, and fifty), <i>Things I Don't Want to Know</i> brings the reader into a writer's heart.</p>
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<b>Deborah Levy</b> writes fiction, plays, and poetry. Her work has been staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company and widely broadcast on the BBC, including her dramatizations of two of Freud's most iconic case histories, <i>Dora </i>and <i>The Wolfman</i>. The author of highly praised novels including the Man Booker Prize–shortlisted <i>Swimming Home</i>, <i>Beautiful Mutants</i>, <i>Swallowing Geography</i>, and <i>Billy and Girl</i>, she lives in London.
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- PublisherBloomsbury Pub Plc USA
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 1620405652
- ISBN 13 9781620405659
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages111
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