A Sunday Times (London) Top 100 Novel of the Twenty-First Century "No one has written better about what, I suppose, is generally known as female experience .
About author(s): Rachel Cusk is the author of Second Place ; the trilogy Outline , Transit , Kudos ; the essay collection Coventry ; the memoirs A Life\'s Work , The Last Supper , and Aftermath ; and several other novels: Saving Agnes (winner of the Whitbread Award), The Temporary , The Country Life (winner of the Somerset Maugham Award), The Lucky Ones , In the Fold , Arlington Park , and The Bradshaw Variations ..
Penetrating and empathetic, Rachel Cusk \'s Arlington Park is "a domestic adventure about the perils of modern privilege that is as smartly satirical as it is warmly wise" ( Elle ).
Everything about Arlington Park is original and fearless." --Francine Prose, Bookforum Set over the course of one rainy day in an ordinary English suburb, Arlington Park is a viciously funny portrait of a group of young mothers, each bound to their families, each straining for some kind of independence: Juliet, enraged at the victory of men over women in family life
Amanda, warding off thoughts of death with obsessive housework
Solly, about to give birth to her fourth child
Maisie, struggling to accept provincial life; and Christine, the optimist and host of a dinner party where the neighbors come together.
All of it is familiar from life but not (thus far) from literature. . .
A Sunday Times (London) Top 100 Novel of the Twenty-First Century "No one has written better about what, I suppose, is generally known as female experience
