Book of the Week: AUGUST BLUE by Deborah Levy

With its subtle exploration of contrasting doubles, of freedom and constraint, of art and life, of family and society, August Blue is an enigmatic novel. It’s sparsely written, with evocative sentences, yet crisp ideas. Readers of Levy’s other novels will recognise the themes of mothers and daughters, of heat as an oppressor as well as an escape, and enigmatic actions, but will see a change in the telling. Levy seems to draw her memoir style (from her 'Living Autobiography' trilogy) into this novel, creating a fiction that has few boundaries.

• Read Stella’s review of August Blue.

• How Deborah Levy can change your life.

• The split self.

• Embodied strangeness.

• The psychopathology of the doppelgänger.

• Double vision.

• Not smaller than I am.

• RNZ review.

• “I chase my arguments.”

• On Louise Bourgeois.

• The ‘Living Autobiography’:
  Read Thomas’s review of Things I Don’t Want to Know.
  Read Thomas’s review of The Cost of Living.
  Real Estate.

• Read Stella’s review of The Man Who Saw Everything.

• Hot Milk.

• Swimming Home.

• Other books by Deborah Levy.

• Your copy of August Blue.