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Things I Don't Want to Know
A Response to George Orwell's Why I Write
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See more'Perhaps when Orwell described sheer egoism as a necessary quality for a writer, he was not thinking about the sheer egoism of a female writer. Even the most arrogant female writer has to work over time to build an ego that is robust enough to get her through January, never mind all the way to December.' Deborah Levy
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Things I Don't Want to Know is a unique response to George Orwell from one of our most vital contemporary writers. Taking Orwell's famous list of motives for writing as the jumping-off point for a sequence of thrilling reflections on the writing life, this is a perfect companion not just to Orwell's essay, but also to Levy's own, essential oeuvre.
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ISBN: 9781907903632
Publisher: Notting Hill Editions
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 01 January 2013
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Notting Hill Editions
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 11.0mm
Width: 120.0mm
Height: 190.0mm
Weight: 164g
Pages: 116
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About the Author
Deborah Levy trained at Dartington College of Arts, leaving in 1981 to write a number of plays, highly acclaimed for their "intellectual rigour, poetic fantasy and visual imagination". She wrote and published her first novel Beautiful Mutants, when she was 27 years old. The experience of not having to give her words to a director, actors and designer to interpret was so exhilarating, she wrote a few more. Her novel, Swimming Home, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012.
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