Outline is a novel in ten conversations.
A stellar accomplishment.\' James Lasdun, Guardian.
Among other things, it gets a great variety of human beings down on the page with both immediacy and depth; an elemental pleasure that makes the book as gripping to read as a thriller...
And through these disclosures, a portrait of the narrator is drawn by contrast, a portrait of a woman learning to face great a great loss.
Outline is the first book in a short and yet epic cycle - a masterful trilogy which will be remembered as one of the most significant achievements of our times.\'Outline succeeds powerfully.
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 seatmate from the place.
She meets other writers for dinner.
She leads her student in storytelling exercises.
Spare and lucid, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing over an oppressively hot summer in Athens.
Outline is a novel in ten conversations
