Things I Don't Want to Know
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Narrated by:
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Juliet Stevenson
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Deborah Levy
A luminescent treatise on writing, love, and loss, a witty response to George Orwell's influential essay "Why I Write"
Things I Don't Want to Know is the first in Deborah Levy's essential three-part "living autobiography" on writing and womanhood.
Taking George Orwell's famous essay, "Why I Write", as a jumping-off point, Deborah Levy offers her own indispensable reflections of the writing life. With wit, clarity, and calm brilliance, she considers how the writer must stake claim to that contested territory as a young woman and shape it to her need. Things I Don't Want to Know is a work of dazzling insight and deep psychological succor, from one of our most vital contemporary writers.
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Critic reviews
“[A] contemplation of what it means to be a contemporary woman.... Levy’s books are slim, but no less wondrous; she packs astounding insight and clarity into every passage.” (The Globe and Mail)
"Levy successfully weaves historical, political, and personal threads together to form a nuanced account of her life and why she writes. Her graceful memoir/essay emphasizes a woman’s need to speak out even if she has to use a quiet voice. For feminists and memoir enthusiasts." (Library Journal)
"A lively, vivid account of how the most innocent details of a writer's personal story can gain power in fiction." (New York Times Book Review)