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Deborah Levy is the author of several novels including August Blue, Hot Milk and Swimming Home, alongside a formally innovative, critically acclaimed 'living autobiography' trilogy: Things I Don't Want to Know, The Cost of Living and Real Estate. She has been shortlisted twice each for the Goldsmiths Prize and Booker Prize and won the Prix Femina Etranger. She has also written for The Royal Shakespeare Company and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.A scorching, poignant collection of essays . . . Deborah Levy's new book shows why she's the patron saint of women's writing . . . This collection is the essence of Levy because it revolves around her various literary and artistic heroes â women, mainly â who provide succour for her writing soul . . . Levy touches on how each inspired her; many of Levy's readers, in turn, will be hoping for some of that same inspiration to rub off on them . . . A generous book with much to amuse, admire and often agonise over
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[A] gifted and enlightening writer . . . 'Telegram to a Pylon Transmitting Electricity of Distances' is a montage of intimate and industrial images that tessellate beautifully. 'The Position of Spoons', an elegant, unnerving and perfectly paced little anecdote from the past, is strange and moving . . . Deborah Levy is invariably sharp and sprightly company
Financial Times
For all lovers of culture, and writers in particular, <i>The Position of Spoons</i> has many gems . . . You could lose an hour, an afternoon, in its considered prose: the distillation of decades of reading and writing, of Levyâs intellectual engagement with life on and off the page . . . A life spent in thrall to art
Irish Times
[Levyâs] writing is one radiant mise-en-scène after another . . . Dreamy but diamond-sharp, prismatic, droll . . . Each sentence precisely pins down a feeling, and with such economy . . . Her words are lit from within
Los Angeles Review of Books
A dream read for writers, creative thinkers and Levy devotees . . . No one writes with such precision and intimacy, and this book truly gives a glimpse at the mechanisms behind her talents
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Supremely intelligent, accomplished and utterly in control of her craft . . . With details as acute as pinpricks of light through a black curtain, Levy captures contemporary life
Washington Independent Review of Books
Under the blowtorch of Levyâs attention, domestic space and everything in it is transformed into something radically meaningful . . . This is why people love Levy: she has an uncanny ability to honour and redeem aspects of experience routinely dismissed as trivial
Guardian
An absorbing essay collection . . . Few British writers are as adept as Deborah Levy at enacting Hilary Mantelâs advice to writers: to make the reader âfeel acknowledged, and yet estrangedâ
Observer
Levy writes skilfully on the complex interplay of self-presentation and effacement thatâs often demanded of female creativity
Guardian