NPR\'s Favorite Books of 2019 Rachel Cusk redrew the boundaries of fiction with the Outline Trilogy, three literary masterpieces ( The Washington Post ) whose narrator, Faye, perceives the world with a glinting, unsparing intelligence while remaining opaque to the reader.
There\'s a funny phrase for this phenomenon in England: it\'s called being sent to Coventry), this collection is pure Cusk and essential reading for our age: fearless, unrepentantly erudite, and dazzling to behold..
Named for an essay Cusk published in Granta (Every so often, for offences actual or hypothetical, my mother and father stop speaking to me.
Lawrence, Fran oise Sagan, and Kazuo Ishiguro.
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Coventry encompasses memoir, cultural criticism, and writing about literature, with pieces on family life, gender, and politics, and on D.
Now, in Coventry , she gathers a selection of her nonfiction writings that 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.
Lauded for the precision of her prose and the quality of her insight, Cusk is a writer of uncommon brilliance.
NPR\'s Favorite Books of 2019 Rachel Cusk redrew the boundaries of fiction with the Outline Trilogy, three literary masterpieces ( The Washington Post ) whose narrator, Faye, perceives the world with a glinting, unsparing intelligence while remaining opaque to the reader
