Unreal Estate: Author Deborah Levy Imagines Her Dream Home - The Gloss Magazine

Author and playwright DEBORAH LEVY has written a trilogy of “living memoirs”. In Real Estate, Levy imagines and re-imagines her future and the house in which she will live, borrowing features from various houses to complete the picture …

The delicate winter blooms at her stall had me thinking about the artist Georgia O’Keeffe and the way she painted flowers. It was as if she were introducing each one of them to us for the first time. In O’Keeffe’s hands they became peculiar, sexual, uncanny. In the meanwhile I had to get my new banana tree home from Shoreditch on a bus and a train to my crumbling apartment block on the hill. It was growing in a pot, about one foot high. The flower seller with long, luscious fake eyelashes told me she reckoned it wanted to live a more humid life. It had been a cold winter in the UK so far and we agreed we were also yearning for a more humid life. While I was on the train to Highbury and Islington, I added a few more details to my unreal estate.

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