by Deborah Levy · SOUS SOL · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782364687127
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«Le coût de la vie» is Deborah Levy's memoir, published by Éditions du sous-sol in paperback (176 pages, in French).
After a painful divorce, Deborah Levy leaves a Victorian house for a small apartment in north London and rebuilds her life with an electric bicycle and her writing. She reflects on femininity, motherhood, independence and the emotional and social cost of autonomy.
Translation from English by Céline Leroy. This French edition was published in 2023 in the Souterrains collection.
For a general audience interested in contemporary memoirs and a lucid look at femininity, motherhood and independence.
Deborah Levy is a South African novelist, playwright and poet. She initially concentrated on writing for the theatre – her plays were staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company – before focusing on prose fiction. Her early novels included Beautiful Mutants, Swallowing Geography, and Billy & Girl. Her more recent fiction has included the Booker-shortlisted novels Swimming Home and Hot Milk, as well as the Booker-longlisted The Man Who Saw Everything, and the short-story collection Black Vodka.
