The Rules Do Not Apply: A Memoir

ISBN: 0812986679

Author: Levy, Ariel

Condition: New

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER This Years Must-Read Memoir (W magazine) about the choices a young woman makes in her search for adventure, meaning, and loveNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYVogue Time Esquire Entertainment Weekly The Guardian Harpers Bazaar Library Journal NPRAll her life, Ariel Levy was told that she was too fervent, too forceful, too much. As a young woman, she decided that becoming a writer would perfectly channel her strength and desire. She would be a professional explorer-the kind of woman who is free to do whatever she chooses. Levy moved to Manhattan to pursue her dream, and spent years of adventure, traveling all over the world writing stories about unconventional heroines, following their fearless examples in her own life.But when she experiences unthinkable heartbreak, Levy is forced to surrender her illusion of control. In telling her story, Levy has captured a portrait of our time, of the shifting forces in American culture, of what has changed and what has remained. And of how to begin again.Praise for The Rules Do Not ApplyUnflinching and intimate, wrenching and revelatory, Ariel Levys powerful memoir about love, loss, and finding ones way shimmers with truth and heart on every page.-Cheryl StrayedEvery deep feeling a human is capable of will be shaken loose by this profound book. Ariel Levy has taken grief and made art out of it.-David SedarisBeautifully crafted . . . This book is haunting; it is smart and engaging. It was so engrossing that I read it in a day.-The New York Times Book ReviewLevys wise and poignant memoir is the voice of a new generation of women, full of grit, pathos, truth, and inspiration. Being in her presence is energizing and ennobling. Reading her deep little book is inspiring.-San Francisco Book ReviewLevy has the rare gift of seeing herself with fierce, unforgiving clarity. And she deploys prose to match, raw and agile. She plumbs the commotion deep within and takes the measure of her have-it-all generation.-The AtlanticCheryl Strayed meets a Nora Ephron movie. Youll laugh, ugly cry, and finish it before the weekends over.-theSkimm