Winner of the Los Angeles Times Christopher Isherwood Prize for
Autobiographical Prose
Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, the Washington Post, TIME, and
Kirkus
A Millions Most Anticipated Book of the Year
A USA Today Book Not to Miss
A LitHub Best-Reviewed Book of the Year
Real Estate is the third and final installment in three-time Booker
Prize nominated Deborah Levy's Living Autobiography series: an
exhilarating, thought-provoking and boldly intimate meditation on home
and the specters that haunt it in our patriarchal society.
"Three bicycles. Seven ghosts. A crumbling apartment block on the hill.
Fame. Tenderness. The statue of Peter Pan. Silk. Melancholy. The banana
tree. A love story."
Virginia Woolf wrote that in order to be a writer, a woman needs a room
of one's own. Now, in Real Estate, acclaimed author Deborah Levy
concludes her ground-breaking trilogy of living autobiographies with an
exhilarating, boldly intimate meditation on home and the specters that
haunt it.
In this vibrant memoir, Levy employs her characteristic indelible
writing, sharp wit, and acute insights to craft a searing examination of
womanhood and ownership. Her inventory of possessions, real and
imagined, pushes readers to question our cultural understanding of
belonging and belongings and to consider the value of a woman's
intellectual and personal life.
Blending personal history, gender politics, philosophy, and literary
theory, Real Estate is a brilliant, compulsively readable narrative.
