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1) Outline
Author
Series
Outline volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
On a flight from London to Athens, two strangers strike up a conversation. The Greek businessman is as intimate and fulsome as the woman (our narrator) is restrained and observant. A teacher of writing, the woman elicits confidences from others with the perfectly timed question, the knowing nod. Also a novelist, she can easily spot the inconsistencies in her seatmate's self-serving story of broken marriages and failed businesses. After all, don't...
2) Kudos
Author
Series
Outline volume 3
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
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...
3) Second place
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
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. Second Place, Rachel Cusk's electrifying new novel, is a study of female fate and...
4) Transit
Author
Series
Outline volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
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, until now, avoided, and to consider questions of vulnerability and power, death and renewal, in what becomes her struggle to...
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