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 student in storytelling exercises. She meets other writers for dinner. She goes swimming in the Ionian Sea with her seatmate from the place.
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 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. 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... A stellar accomplishment.'- James Lasdun,Guardian
Publisher: Faber & FaberISBN: 9780571346769Number of pages: 256Weight: 218 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 15 mmEdition: Main
Rachel Cusk
A Canadian-British writer,Rachel Cusk was named as one of Granta's'Best Young British Novelists'in 2003. Her writing - which notably often draws explicitly on her own life includes the memoirs A Last Supper and her blistering work of the aftershock of life post-divorce,Aftermath as well as the trilogy Outline,Transit and Kudos.
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