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From Rachel Cusk, her first collection of essays about motherhood, marriage, feminism, and art Rachel Cusk redrew the boundaries of fiction with the Outline trilogy, three "literary masterpieces" (Washington Post) whose narrator, Faye, perceives the world with a glinting, unsparing intelligence while remaining opaque to the reader. Lauded for the precision of her prose and the quality of her insight, Cusk is a writer of uncommon brilliance. 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. Coventry encompasses memoir, cultural criticism, and writing about literature, with pieces on family life, gender, and politics, and on D. H. Lawrence, Françoise Sagan, and Kazuo Ishiguro. Named for an essay Cusk published in Granta ("Every so often, for offences actual or hypothetical, my mother and father stop speaking to me. There's a funny phrase for this phenomenon in England: it's called being sent to Coventry"), this collection is pure Cusk and essential listening for our age: fearless, unrepentantly erudite, and dazzling to behold.

About the Author :
Rachel Cusk is the author of the Outline trilogy, the memoirs A Life's Work and Aftermath, and several other works of fiction and nonfiction. Her debut novel, Saving Agnes, won the Whitbread First Novel Award. She is a Guggenheim Fellow. She lives in Paris. Antonia Beamish is a voice-over artist and AudioFile Earphones Award-winning narrator. She is also a professional actress best known for performances in films such as The Last Horror Movie, Dead Creatures, and Chemical Wedding.

Review :
"An eloquent and engrossing selection of nonfiction writing that will enhance Cusk's stature in contemporary literature." -- "Kirkus Reviews (starred review)" "Cusk's first collection of essays is a daring return to her own voice....It delves piercingly into familiar realms of motherhood, divorce, art, feminism, and family." -- "Slate" "Impressive and wonderful. Rachel Cusk sees the truth where the rest of us can only make out shadows. Coventry is Cusk's theory of forms." -- "Lauren Elkin, author of Flâneuse" "In Coventry...Cusk explains that her parents periodically withdraw contact without explanation. When her mother reaches out to reconnect after one such absence, Cusk decides not to re-engage, preferring to take up permanent residence in Coventry. It is from this place of exile that she observes the workings of the world." -- "Financial Times (London)" "In Coventry, the British author of the widely admired Outline trilogy shows how central the self is to her artistic vision." -- "New York Times Book Review" "Opening up the deep crevices of everyday life's paradoxes, myths, and more, Cusk pulls apart the stories we tell to reflect on the mess underneath." -- "Booklist (starred review)" "Sassy, honest, and memorable. Readers will come away with numerous 'aha' moments." -- "Library Journal" "The essays...[are] first-rate, marked by candor and seriousness, and they're familiar...[with] Cusk's abiding themes--her obligations as mother, daughter, citizen, artist, and breadwinner." -- "New York Times" "The overriding thread binding her essays is...allowing people to make sense of their lives. It's something Cusk interrogates exceptionally well throughout this well-crafted compilation." -- "Publishers Weekly " "The British novelist shares her voice on everything from motherhood and marriage to art in these pieces, which jump between memoir, criticism, and writing about writing." -- "Time"


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781094089867
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Blackstone Publishing
  • Edition: Unabridged edition
  • Returnable: N
  • ISBN-10: 1094089869
  • Publisher Date: 30 Nov 2019
  • Binding: CD-Audio
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Essays


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