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1 online resource (1 audio file (2hr., 39 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Read by Henrietta Meire. |
| Summary |
A shimmering jewel of a book about writing from two-time Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy 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 work riffs on these same commitments from a female writer's perspective. 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; 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. Spanning continents (Africa and Europe) and decades (we meet the writer at seven, fifteen, and fifty), Things I Don't Want to Know brings the listener into a writer's heart. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Levy, Deborah.
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Orwell, George, 1903-1950. Why I write.
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Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Women authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Authorship.
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Women and literature.
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Meire, Henrietta.
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hoopla digital.
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| Added Title |
Things I do not want to know |
| Note |
Title on jacket: Things I don't want to know : a living autobiography |
| ISBN |
9781696605649 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1696605644 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT14609296 |
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