Download or read book The Cost of Living written by Deborah Levy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling exploration of the dimensions of love, marriage, mourning, and kinship from two-time Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy. A New York Times Notable Book A New York Public Library Best Nonfiction Book of 2018 What does it cost a woman to unsettle old boundaries and collapse the social hierarchies that make her a minor character in a world not arranged to her advantage? This vibrant memoir, a portrait of contemporary womanhood in flux, is an urgent quest to find an unwritten major female character who can exist more easily in the world. Levy considers what it means to live with meaning, value, and pleasure, to seize the ultimate freedom of writing our own lives, and reflects on the work of such artists and thinkers as Simone de Beauvoir, James Baldwin, Elena Ferrante, Marguerite Duras, David Lynch, and Emily Dickinson. The Cost of Living, longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal in Nonfiction, is crucial testimony, as distinctive, witty, complex, and original as Levy's acclaimed novels.
Download or read book The Cost of Living written by Mavis Gallant and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2009-09-29 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Review Books Original Mavis Gallant is renowned as one of the great short-story writers of our day. This new gathering of long-unavailable or previously uncollected work presents stories from 1951 to 1971 and shows Gallant's progression from precocious virtuosity, to accomplished artistry, to the expansive innovatory spirit that marks her finest work. "Madeleine's Birthday," the first of Gallant's many stories to be published in The New Yorker, pairs off a disaffected teenager, abandoned by her social-climbing mother, with a complacent middle-aged suburban housewife, in a subtly poignant comedy of miscommunication that reveals both characters to be equally adrift. "The Cost of Living," the extraordinary title story, is about a company of strangers, shipwrecked over a chilly winter in a Parisian hotel and bound to one another by animosity as much as by unexpected love. Set in Paris, New York, the Riviera, and Montreal and full of scrupulously observed characters ranging from freebooters and malingerers to runaway children and fashion models, Gallant's stories are at once satirical and lyrical, passionate and skeptical, perfectly calibrated and in constant motion, brilliantly capturing the fatal untidiness of life.
Download or read book The Cost of Living written by Arundhati Roy and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-12-10 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of The God of Small Things comes a scathing and passionate indictment of big government's disregard for the individual. In her Booker Prize-winning novel, The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy turned a compassionate but unrelenting eye on one family in India. Now she lavishes the same acrobatic language and fierce humanity on the future of her beloved country. In this spirited polemic, Roy dares to take on two of the great illusions of India's progress: the massive dam projects that were supposed to haul this sprawling subcontinent into the modern age--but which instead have displaced untold millions--and the detonation of India's first nuclear bomb, with all its attendant Faustian bargains. Merging her inimitable voice with a great moral outrage and imaginative sweep, Roy peels away the mask of democracy and prosperity to show the true costs hidden beneath. For those who have been mesmerized by her vision of India, here is a sketch, traced in fire, of its topsy-turvy society, where the lives of the many are sacrificed for the comforts of the few. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Download or read book Cost of Living written by Martyna Majok and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-06-18 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eddie, an unemployed truck driver, reunites with his ex-wife Ani after she suffers a devastating accident. John, a brilliant and witty doctoral student, hires overworked Jess as a caregiver. As their lives intersect, Majok’s play delves into the chasm between abundance and need and explores the space where bodies—abled and disabled—meet each other.
Download or read book Intercity Differences in the Cost of Living written by United States. Works Progress Administration and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cost of Living written by Margaret Weston Kendall and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cost of Living by Margaret Weston Kendall: A collection of essays exploring the economic and social costs of living in America, "The Cost of Living" provides valuable insights into the ways in which economic and political policies impact individual lives and social structures. Kendall's work sheds light on the complexities and contradictions of American culture and society. Key Aspects of the Book "The Cost of Living": Collection of Essays: The book provides a collection of essays exploring the economic and social costs of living in America, shedding light on the complexities and contradictions of American culture and society. Social and Political Critique: Kendall's work provides a critical assessment of economic and political policies and their impact on individual lives and social structures. Insight into Cultural and Economic Context: The book sheds light on the cultural and economic contexts of American life, including the impact of social and political movements, evolving cultural values, and changing economic structures. Margaret Weston Kendall was an American writer and social critic who lived in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Her works on economic and social issues have contributed significantly to the field of social and political criticism.
Download or read book The Cost of Living written by Martin Parr and published by Aperture. This book was released on 1989 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A photographic essay portrays the new middle classes of England at home, at parties and meetings, shopping, and going about their everyday life.
Download or read book The Cost of Living written by United States. Congress. Economic Joint Committee and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The High Cost of Living written by Marge Piercy and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Passions flare in a most unlikely love triangle between three remarkable characters facing arduous life challenges in this engrossing novel by bestselling author Marge Piercy Heartbroken after her girlfriend leaves her for another woman, Leslie, a history grad student, follows her thesis advisor from Grand Rapids to Detroit for a fresh start. There she befriends seventeen-year-old Honor, who sparks a familiar passion within her. Feeling that she can’t act on her desire, she sleeps with Honor’s older friend, Bernard, a gay former street hustler who resents his past and, to make matters more complicated, also lusts for Honor. As the three grapple with issues of sexuality and identity, author Marge Piercy manages to be both intimately attuned to her characters’ emotions and aware of their role in a larger social and economic context. Leslie, Honor, and Bernard struggle financially in a city that doesn’t offer many opportunities, and they discover that expressing their sexuality and finding love may be privileges they cannot afford. “A novel as ambiguous and fascinating as life itself.” —The New York Times “Piercy goes over her subjects with a fine-tooth comb and provides food for thought about some of our directions, feelings and values.” —Publishers Weekly
Download or read book High Cost of Living in the District of Columbia written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the District of Columbia and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1038 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cost of Living written by Helen Thompson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Banks keep your money safe and offer an alternative to carrying piles of money around with you all the time. Learn all this and more in Banking Basics.
Download or read book The Cost of Living in Twelve Industrial Cities written by National Industrial Conference Board and published by New York, National industrial conference board, Incorporated. This book was released on 1928 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Gift of European Thought and the Cost of Living written by Vassos Argyrou and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: European thought is often said to be a gift to the rest of the world, but what if there is no gift as such? What if there is only an economy where every giving is also a taking, and every taking is also a giving? This book extends the question of economies by making a case for an “economy of thought” and a “political economy.” It argues that all thinking and doing presupposes taking, and therefore giving, as the price to pay for taking; or that there exists a “cost of living,” which renders the idea of free thinking and living untenable. The argument is developed against the Enlightenment directive to think for oneself as the means of becoming autonomous and shows that this “light,” given to the rest of the world as a gift, turns out to be nothing.
Download or read book Changes in Cost of Living written by and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stabilizing the Cost of Living Hearings Before 77 2 on S J Res 161 September 15 and 16 1942 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Banking and Currency Committee and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cost of Living written by Woodrow Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cost of Living written by Merrit Malloy and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-08-02 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE TITLE OF THIS BOOK IS SOMEWHAT DECEIVING. THIS BOOK IS NOT ABOUT THE COST OF LIVING, IT IS REALLY ABOUT THE COST OF NOT LIVING.
