{"product_id":"things-i-dont-want-to-know-on-writing-9781635572247","title":"Things I Don't Want to Know: On Writing","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Deborah Levy\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Bloomsbury USA\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury USA\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: American - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA shimmering jewel of a book about writing from two-time Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, to publish alongside her new work of nonfiction, \u003ci\u003eThe Cost of Living\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBlending personal history, gender politics, philosophy, and literary theory into a luminescent treatise on writing, love, and loss, \u003ci\u003eThings I Don't Want to Know \u003c\/i\u003eis 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSpanning continents (Africa and Europe) and decades (we meet the writer at seven, fifteen, and fifty), \u003ci\u003eThings I Don't Want to Know \u003c\/i\u003ebrings the reader into a writer's heart.","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45136139780247,"sku":"9781635572247","price":1148.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781635572247.webp?v=1767103935","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/things-i-dont-want-to-know-on-writing-9781635572247","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}