{"product_id":"august-blue-paperback-by-deborah-levy","title":"August Blue Paperback by Deborah Levy","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n                            \n                                \n                                    \u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n                                    \u003cul\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cb\u003ePenguin Canada\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e(2024-08-06)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003eEnglish\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e256\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003epages\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e9780735241459\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eItem Weight\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e215.46\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003egrams\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e8.0 x 5.19 x 0.68\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003ecm\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                    \u003c\/ul\u003e\n                                    \u003cbr\u003e\n                                    \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“[\u003ci\u003eAugust Blue\u003c\/i\u003e] offers glimpses of Levy’s talent as a stylist. She can sketch a scene with a few precise brushstrokes and conjure emotion out of white space on the page.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA mesmerising novel on self-discovery from the twice Booker-shortlisted author of \u003ci\u003eHot Milk\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSwimming Home\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIf she was my double and I was hers, was it true that she was knowing, I was unknowing, she was sane, I was crazy, she was wise, I was foolish? The air was electric between us, the way we transmitted our feelings to each other as they flowed through our arms, which were touching.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt the height of her career, the piano virtuoso Elsa M. Anderson—former child prodigy, now in her thirties—walks off the stage in Vienna, midperformance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow she is in Athens, watching an uncannily familiar woman purchase a pair of mechanical dancing horses at a flea market. Elsa wants the horses too, but there are no more for sale. She drifts to the ferry port, on the run from her talent and her history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo begins her journey across Europe, shadowed by the elusive woman who seems to be her double. A dazzling portrait of melancholy and metamorphosis, Deborah Levy’s \u003ci\u003eAugust Blue \u003c\/i\u003euncovers the ways in which we attempt to revise our oldest stories and make ourselves anew.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                                    \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                                    \u003cp\u003eDEBORAH LEVY is the author of seven novels: \u003ci\u003eBeautiful Mutants, Swallowing Geography, The Unloved, Billy and Girl, Swimming Home, Hot Milk, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The Man Who Saw Everything\u003c\/i\u003e. She has been shortlisted twice each for the Goldsmiths Prize and the Booker Prize. Her short story collection, \u003ci\u003eBlack Vodka\u003c\/i\u003e, was nominated for the International Frank O'Connor Short Story Award and was broadcast on BBC Radio 4, as were her acclaimed dramatizations of Freud's iconic case studies, \u003ci\u003eDora\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Wolfman\u003c\/i\u003e. She has also written for The Royal Shakespeare Company and her pioneering theatre writing is collected in \u003ci\u003eLevy: Plays 1\u003c\/i\u003e. Her work is widely translated. Levy is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She is also the author of a formally innovative and emotionally daring trilogy of memoirs, a \"living autobiography\" on writing, gender politics and philosophy, of which \u003ci\u003eReal Estate \u003c\/i\u003eis the final volume. The first two volumes, \u003ci\u003eThings I Don't Want to Know \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The Cost of Living, \u003c\/i\u003ewon the Prix Femina Etranger 2020.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                                \n                            \n                            \u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Best Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":45394958975137,"sku":"BBSNIJ9780735241459","price":23.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/2084\/5473\/files\/9780735241459.jpg?v=1763576213","url":"https:\/\/www.bestbookstore.ca\/products\/august-blue-paperback-by-deborah-levy","provider":"Best Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}