Rachel Cusk
Author
Series
Outline volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Formats
Description
"A man and a woman are seated next to each other on a plane. They get to talking--about their destination, their careers, their families. Grievances are aired, family tragedies discussed, marriages and divorces analyzed. An intimacy is established as two strangers contrast their own fictions about their lives. Rachel Cusk's Outline is a novel in ten conversations. Spare and stark, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing during...
2) Transit
Author
Series
Outline volume 2
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 22 cm
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,...
4) Kudos
Author
Series
Outline volume 3
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
232 pages ; 22 cm
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 fissure...
5) Second place
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
183 pages
Description
A woman invites a famous artist to use her guesthouse in the remote coastal landscape where she lives with her family. Powerfully drawn to his paintings, she believes his vision might penetrate the mystery at the center of her life. But as a long, dry summer sets in, his provocative presence itself becomes an enigma?and disrupts the calm of her secluded household.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
248p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Follows a single rainy day in the lives of the inhabitants of Arlington Park in the English suburbs, as they live out the dubious accomplishments of their lives in a world rife with contentment and anxiety but empty of belief.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
198 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Midway through his life, the artist G begins to paint upside down and eventually paints his wife upside down, also making her ugly. The paintings are a great success. In Paris, a woman is attacked by a stranger in the street. Her attacker flees, but not before turning around to contemplate her victim. At the age of twenty-two, G leaves home for a new life in a new country. Her paintings attract the disapproval of the man she later marries. When a...