The Position of Spoons is a scorching, poignant collection of essays about her writing life
acid sharp memoirs exploring her sense of self and what she wanted from her post-divorce life, her forte was fierce, feverish novels, dripping with surrealism and symbolism. She had been writing plays, fiction, poetry and essays since the 80s but it took a 2012 Booker shortlisting for, an unsettling story set amid the blistering heat of the French Riviera, for Levy, then 52, to make her literary name.
Both descriptions are from “Lemons at My Table”, one of 34 mini essays and short pieces that make up Levy’s latest book,, an obsessive man, who once told her how his spoon must always point towards his boiled egg, not away from it, when he ate one. Choosing “The Position of Spoons” as her title piece serves to remind us all to embrace the unexpected, or even better: seek it out.
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