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Outline A Novel
Outline A Novel
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Binding: Paperback
Description: A Finalist for the Folio Prize the Goldsmiths Prize the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction One of The New York Times Top Ten Books of the Year. 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 Mail Chosen 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 Rachel Cusk's Outline is a novel in ten conversations. Spare and lucid it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing over an oppressively hot summer in Athens. She leads her students in storytelling exercises. She meets other visiting writers for dinner. She goes swimming in the Ionian Sea with her neighbor from the plane. The people she encounters speak volubly about themselves: their fantasies anxieties pet theories regrets and longings. And through these disclosures a portrait of the narrator is drawn by contrast a portrait of a woman learning to face a great loss.
Title: Outline A Novel
Author(s): Cusk Rachel
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250081544
Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 2/9/2016
Series: Outline Trilogy
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Description: A Finalist for the Folio Prize the Goldsmiths Prize the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction One of The New York Times Top Ten Books of the Year. 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 Mail Chosen 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 Rachel Cusk's Outline is a novel in ten conversations. Spare and lucid it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing over an oppressively hot summer in Athens. She leads her students in storytelling exercises. She meets other visiting writers for dinner. She goes swimming in the Ionian Sea with her neighbor from the plane. The people she encounters speak volubly about themselves: their fantasies anxieties pet theories regrets and longings. And through these disclosures a portrait of the narrator is drawn by contrast a portrait of a woman learning to face a great loss.
Title: Outline A Novel
Author(s): Cusk Rachel
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250081544
Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 2/9/2016
Series: Outline Trilogy
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction