{"product_id":"the-rules-do-not-apply-9780349005324","title":"The Rules Do Not Apply","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e''Every deep feeling a human is capable of will be shaken loose by this short, but profound book''\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e David Sedaris\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e''I wanted what we all want: everything. We want a mate who feels like family and a lover who is exotic, surprising. We want to be youthful adventurers and middle-aged mothers. We want intimacy and autonomy, safety and stimulation, reassurance and novelty, coziness and thrills. But we can''t have it all.''\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAriel Levy picks you up and hurls you through the story of how she lived believing that conventional rules no longer applied - that marriage doesn''t have to mean monogamy, that aging doesn''t have to mean infertility, that she could be ''the kind of woman who is free to do whatever she chooses''. But all of her assumptions about what she can control are undone after a string of overwhelming losses.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e''I thought I had harnessed the power of my own strength and greed and love in a life that could contain it. But i\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEvery deep feeling a human is capable of will be shaken loose by this short, but profound book\u003c\/b\u003e. Ariel Levy has taken grief, and made art out of it -- David Sedaris\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLevy is a fantastic writer\u003c\/b\u003e and reporter, cool-headed, witty and without self-pity -- Rachel Cooke * Observer *\u003cbr\u003eBy chapter three of \u003ci\u003eThe Rules Do \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eNot Apply \u003c\/i\u003eI was ordering copies for every woman I love . . . \u003cb\u003eLevy's honesty and grief are dazzling\u003c\/b\u003e * Sunday Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLevy is a fearless, original journalist\u003c\/b\u003e, now on the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, and she uses these same qualities to scrutinise her own life . . . Levy's prose is dynamic, molten with verbs and with images of light, movement and change . . . \u003cb\u003ebreathtakingly good \u003c\/b\u003e. . . -- Nicci Gerrard * Observer *\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHer narrative rattles along at the breakneck pace of a gripping thriller\u003c\/b\u003e, yet her writing is never anything\u003cbr\u003eshort of crystal clear. She's particularly good at describing love and loss . . . a brilliant memoirist\u003c\/p\u003e * Independent *\u003cbr\u003eBrutally honest yet ultimately uplifting * Vogue *\u003cbr\u003eIn this heartwrenching memoir, the journalist reveals how her desire to have it all - the partner, the lover, the adventurous career and the happy family - was painfully blown apart * Stylist *\u003cbr\u003eA memoir that will change the way you think about monogamy and motherhood . . . we defy you not to read it in a single sitting * Elle *\u003cbr\u003eIt's become a truism that feminists are living out our mothers' unlived lives. But Ariel Levy seems to be living out the unlived lives of an entire generation of women, simultaneously. Free to do whatever she chooses, she chooses everything. But this is no mindless primer on having or not having it all. While reinventing work, marriage, family, pregnancy, sex, and divorce for herself from the ground up, Levy experiences devastating loss. And she recounts it all here with searing intimacy and an unsentimental yet openhearted rigor -- Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home\u003cbr\u003eI read \u003ci\u003eThe Rules Do Not Apply\u003c\/i\u003e in one long, rapt sitting. Unflinching and intimate, wrenching and revelatory, Ariel Levy's powerful memoir about love, loss, and finding one's way shimmers with truth and heart on every page -- Cheryl Strayed\u003cbr\u003eThis is more than simply a tale of a life undone . . . Levy's articulation of grief is also beautifully, frighteningly real * i *\u003cbr\u003eA great memoir is not a trip through someone else's life, but a series of long looks into your own life. Ariel Levy's book - grieving, hopeful, painful, funny - is that -- Amy Bloom\u003cbr\u003eA talented journalist - a staff writer at the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker \u003c\/i\u003e- she knows how to tell a story and keep it brief . . . gripping * Tablet *\u003cbr\u003eA searing and poignantly honest memoir . . . Her story of resilience becomes an unforgettable portrait of the shifting forces in our culture * Sunday Post *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThink heightened senses and heady in-the-moment intensity. She's crisscrossed the globe in search of these\u003cbr\u003eunique experiences as a staff writer for The New Yorker since 2008, and now turns her interrogative eye on herself. What results is\u003cbr\u003eprofound, and lasting\u003c\/p\u003e * Esquire *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Rules Do Not Apply \u003c\/i\u003eby Ariel Levy is simultaneously the personal story of a dramatic miscarriage, a frank, powerful look at shifting gender roles and how we make a life for ourselves, and an inside glimpse into Levy's work as a journalist for the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e -- Curtis Sittenfeld * Observer *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA gut \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003epunch of a book \u003c\/b\u003eas she explores the dilemmas of professional women who work hard then find they want children -- Jessie Burton, author of The Miniaturist\u003cbr\u003eA dazzling insight into the mind of one of the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e's most prolific writers, Ariel Levy's memoir will seem relatable to all those who have at one time or another felt a startling sense of dissociation from their life * Independent *\u003cbr\u003eAriel Levy is a writer of uncompromising honesty, remarkable clarity and surprising humor, gathered from the wreckage of tragedy. Her account of life doing its darnedest to topple her, and her refusal to be knocked down, will leave you shaken and inspired. Her ersatz brand of zen wisdom is one we all need in our lives. I am the better for having read this book -- Lena Dunham\u003cbr\u003eA great memoir is not just a trip through someone else's life, but a series of long looks into your own life. Ariel Levy's book - grieving, hopeful, painful, funny - is that -- Amy Bloom","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49396185858391,"sku":"9780349005324","price":10.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780349005324.jpg?v=1730415030","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-rules-do-not-apply-9780349005324","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}