Rachel Cusk
1) Second place
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"From the author of the Outline trilogy, a fable of human destiny and decline, enacted in a closed system of intimate, fractured relationships"--
A woman invites a famed artist to visit the remote coastal region where she lives, in the belief that his vision will penetrate the mystery of her life and landscape. His provocative presence provides the frame for a study of female fate and male privilege, of the geometries of human relationships, and...
2) Outline
Author
Series
Outline volume 1
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Rachel Cusk's Outline is a novel in ten conversations. Spare and stark, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing during an oppressively hot summer in Athens. She leads her students in storytelling exercises. She meets other visiting writers for dinners and discourse. She goes swimming with an elderly Greek bachelor. The people she encounters speak, volubly, about themselves: their fantasies, anxieties, pet theories, regrets, and...
Author
Publisher
Picador USA
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
A woman gives up the rat race in the city for the calm of the country--taking a job as family help--only to discover that country life with its eccentric people can be just as stressful. A British comedy by the author of Saving Agnes.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The author's first collection of essays about motherhood, marriage, feminism, and art both offers new insights on the themes at the heart of her fiction and forges a startling critical voice on some of our most urgent personal, social, and artistic questions.
5) Transit
Author
Series
Outline volume 2
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"The stunning second novel of a trilogy that began with Outline, one of The New York Times Book Review's ten best books of 2015. In the wake of family collapse, a writer and her two young sons move to London. The process of upheaval is the catalyst for a number of transitions--personal, moral, artistic, practical--as she endeavors to construct a new reality for herself and her children. In the city she is made to confront aspects of living she has,...
6) Kudos
Author
Series
Outline volume 3
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A woman writer visits a Europe in flux, where questions of personal and political identity are rising to the surface and the trauma of change is opening up new possibilities of loss and renewal. Within the rituals of literary culture, Faye finds the human story in disarray amid differing attitudes toward the public performance of the creative persona. She begins to identify among the people she meets a tension between truth and representation, a...
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2007
Language
English
Description
Juliet is enraged at the victory of men over women in family life. Amanda is warding off thoughts of death with obsessive housework. Solly is confronting her own buried femininity in the person of her Italian lodger. Maisie despairs at the inevitability with which beauty is destroyed. And Christine's troubled, hilarious spirit presides over Arlington Park and the way of life it represents