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 neighbor from the plane. She meets other visiting writers for dinner and discourse. She leads her students in storytelling exercises. Spare and stark, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing during one oppressively hot summer in Athens. Rachel Cusk's Outline is a novel in ten conversations. An intimacy is established as two strangers contrast their own fictions about their lives. Grievances are aired, family tragedies discussed, marriages and divorces analyzed. They get to talking-about their destination, their careers, their families. 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 MailĪ luminous, powerful novel that establishes Rachel Cusk as one of the finest writers in the English languageĪ man and a woman are seated next to each other on a plane. One of The New York Times' Top Ten Books of the Year. A Finalist for the Folio Prize, the Goldsmiths Prize, the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction.
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