‘A work of great stunning beauty, deep insight, and great originality.’Ī 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. ‘Achieves a kind of formal perfection … masterly.’ ‘A landmark in twenty-first-century English literature.’ And through these disclosures, a portrait of the narrator is drawn by contrast, a portrait of a woman learning to face a great loss.įrom the acclaimed author of the Outline trilogy, a fable of human destiny and decline, enacted in a closed system of intimate, fractured relationships. The people she encounters speak volubly about themselves: their fantasies, anxieties, pet theories, regrets, and longings. She goes swimming in the Ionian Sea with her neighbor from the plane. She meets other visiting writers for dinner. She leads her students in storytelling exercises. Spare and lucid, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing over an oppressively hot summer in Athens. Rachel Cusk’s Outline is a novel in ten conversations.

Named a A New York Times Book Review Notable Book and a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, Vogue, NPR, The Guardian, The Independent, Glamour, and The Globe and MailĬhosen as one of fifteen remarkable books by women that are shaping the way we read and write in the 21st century by the book critics of The New York Times One of The New York Times’ Top Ten Books of the Year. A Finalist for the Folio Prize, the Goldsmiths Prize, the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction

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