{"product_id":"9780241977569","title":"The Cost of Living","description":"Author: Levy, Deborah\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780241977569\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Penguin UK\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 19 Feb 2019\u003cbr\u003ePages: 208 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDazzling, essential, unlike anything else published today - a memoir on modern womanhood, smashing through social expectations and making the case for thrilling, transformative freedom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat does it mean to be free - as an artist, a woman, a mother or daughter? And what is the price of that freedom?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this dazzling memoir, Deborah Levy confronts the essential questions of modern womanhood with humour, pragmatism, and profoundly resonant wisdom. Reflecting on\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethe period when she wrote the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted \u003ci\u003eHot Milk - \u003c\/i\u003ewhen her mother was dying, her daughters were leaving home, her marriage was coming to an end - she is characteristically eloquent on the social expectations and surreal realities of daily life. And expanding far beyond these bounds, she describes a uniquely frank, wise and thrilling manifesto for female experience: embracing the exhilarating terror of freedom, seeking to understand what that freedom could mean and how it might feel.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48181142061214,"sku":"UBD-9780241977569","price":26.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780241977569.jpg?v=1787398862","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780241977569","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}