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Rachel Cusk (born 8 February 1967) is a British novelist and writer. Childhood and education Cusk was born in Saskatoon to British parents in 1967, the second of four children with an older sister and two younger brothers, and spent much of her early childhood in Los Angeles. She moved to her parents' native Britain in 1974, settling in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. She comes from a wealthy Catholic family, and was educated at St Mary's Convent in Cambridge. She studied English at New College, Oxford. Career Early works Cusk published her first novel, Saving Agnes in 1993 which received the Whitbread First Novel Award. Its themes of femininity and social satire remained central to her work over the next decade. She followed this in 1997 with The Country Life, a comedic novel inspired by Stella Gibbons's Cold Comfort Farm and Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre. It won a 1998 Somerset Maugham Award. In 2003 she published The Lucky Ones, a novel of linked stories about five different people, loosely connected to each other. That same year, Cusk was nominated by Granta magazine as one of 20 'Best of Young British Novelists'. Her seventh novel, Arlington Park, was shortlisted for the 2007 Orange Prize for Fiction. In responding to the formal problems of the novel representing female experience, she began to work in non-fiction: A Life's Work, a memoir of motherhood published in 2001, and 2012's Aftermath, which chronicled her marriage to and divorce from her second husband, the photographer Adrian Clarke. Cusk has been a professor of creative writing at Kingston University. Trilogy and later works After a long period of consideration, Cusk began working in a new form that represented personal experience while avoiding the politics of subjectivity and literalism and remaining free from narrative convention. That project became a trilogy of "autobiographical novels": Outline, Transit, and Kudos. The books largely consist of an unnamed narrator chronicling the conversations she has with others, as she goes about her life as a writer. Judith Thurman in The New Yorker wrote: "Many experimental writers have rejected the mechanics of storytelling, but Cusk has found a way to do so without sacrificing its tension." Outline was one of The New York Times's top 5 novels of 2015. Reviewing Outline in The New York Times, Heidi Julavits wrote: "While the narrator is rarely alone, reading Outline mimics the sensation of being underwater, of being separated from other people by a substance denser than air. But there is nothing blurry or muted about Cusk's literary vision or her prose: Spend much time with this novel and you'll become convinced she is one of the smartest writers alive." Outline, was shortlisted for the Folio Prize, the Goldsmiths Prize and the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. Reviewing Cusk's novel Transit, critic Helen Dunmore writing for The Guardian commended Cusk's "brilliant, insightful prose", adding, "Cusk is now working on a level that makes it very surprising that she has not yet won a major literary prize". In The New York Times review of Transit, Dwight Garner said the novel offers "transcendental reflections", and that he was waiting more eagerly for Kudos, the last novel of Rachel Cusk's trilogy, than for that of Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle series. Reviews of Kudos, the last novel of Cusk's trilogy, were largely positive. Writing for The New Yorker, Katy Waldman called it "a book about failure that is not, in itself, a failure. In fact, it is a breathtaking success." In 2015, the Almeida theatre commissioned and originally produced Cusk's adaption of Medea as Medea - Euripides, A New Version. In Cusk's adaptation, Medea does not murder her children. Reviewing Medea, the Financial Times commented: "Rachel Cusk is known as an unsparing writer in the territory of marital break-up". Cusk’s novel Second Place was published in 2021. It is inspired by the memoirs of Mabel Dodge Luhan, who hosted D.H. Lawrence at her property at the Taos art colony in New Mexico, in 1924. In this work, Cusk’s experimentation with the form of the novel continued. Andrew Schenker, writing in the Los Angeles Review of Books, wrote: "If the Outline trilogy had seemed to push beyond the novel while still working within the form, then Second Place suggests that Cusk may have outgrown the genre entirely." Cleveland Review of Books reviewed the book, saying that "the narratorial absence is part of what compels one through the novels, for it acts like a filter, distilling all other people’s tales down to their most philosophically bare, their most ethically ambiguous, their most painfully isolated." The novel was longlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize, and shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction at the 2021 Governor General's Awards. Blandine Longre's French translation was awarded the 2022 Prix Femina étranger. Personal life After a brief first marriage to a banker, Cusk was married to photographer Adrian Clarke, with whom she has two daughters. The couple separated in 2011. Their divorce became a major topic in Cusk's writings. Cusk is married to retail consultant and artist Siemon Scamell-Katz. In 2021, the couple moved from residence in London and Norfolk to Paris, a protest in part against the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union. Bibliography Novels Saving Agnes (1993) The Temporary (1995) The Country Life (1997) The Lucky Ones (2003) In the Fold (2005) Arlington Park (2006) The Bradshaw Variations (2009) The Outline Trilogy Outline (2014) Transit (2016) Kudos (2018) Second Place (2021) Parade (2024) Non-fiction A Life's Work: On Becoming a Mother (2001) The Last Supper: A Summer in Italy (2009) Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation (2012) Coventry: Essays (2019) Quarry (2022) Theatre Medea, Euripides - A new Version, 2015, Commissioned by and originally produced at the Almeida theatre in London, UK. Marble in Metamorphosis (2022) Introductions and forewords Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan (Penguin, 2008) The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Folio Society, 2009) The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence (Vintage, 2011) Complete Stories by Kingsley Amis (Penguin Classics, 2011) Short stories "After Caravaggio's Sacrifice of Isaac", Granta, 2003 "The Stuntman", The New Yorker, 2023 Awards and prizes 1993 Whitbread First Novel Award - Saving Agnes 1997 Somerset Maugham Award - The Country Life 2003 Whitbread Novel Award (shortlist) - The Lucky Ones 2005 Man Booker Prize (longlist) – In the Fold 2007 Orange Prize for Fiction (shortlist) - Arlington Park 2014 Goldmiths Prize (shortlist) 2015 Folio Prize (shortlist) 2015 Bailey's Prize (shortlist) 2015 Scotiabank Giller Prize (shortlist) 2015 Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction (shortlist) 2016 Goldsmiths Prize (shortlist) 2017 Scotiabank Giller Prize (shortlist) 2018 Goldsmiths Prize (shortlist) 2021 Booker Prize (longlist) - Second Place 2021 Governor General's Award for.... Discover the Rachel Cusk popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Rachel Cusk books.
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Happiness, as Such
Natalia Ginzburg & Minna ProctorThe hauntingly beautiful epistolary novel from “a glowing light of modern Italian literature” (New York Times Book Review) Longlisted for the PEN Translation AwardAt the heart of H...
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Ich und meine Mutter
Vivian GornickVivian Gornick ist eine Entdeckung!Mütter sind anstrengend und bleiben es ein Leben lang. Schon als Kind spürt Vivian Gornick bei ihrer Mutter eine blinde Wut über deren Schicksal ...
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The Tower
Uwe TellkampIn derelict Dresden a cultivated, middleclass family does all it can to cope amid the Communist downfall. This striking tapestry of the East German experience is told through the t...
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All Men Want to Know
Nina Bouraoui & Aneesa Abbas Higgins'Intense, gorgeous, troubling, seductive a novel that has to be surrendered to rather than read' Sarah Waters AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER OF AN ENGLISH PEN TRANSLATES AWARD ...
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Selected Letters
John Keats & John Barnard'I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination' Keats, in a letter to his friend Benjamin Bailey in November 1817.In a period of...
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Kasse 19
Claire-Louise Bennett»10 Best Books of 2022.« The New York Times Book Review»Brillant, einzigartig, feministisch. ClaireLouise Bennett ist eine großartige Autorin.« Sinéad Gleeson Mit atemberaubender ...
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The Malay Archipelago
Alfred Russel Wallace & Dr Andrew BerryOf all the extraordinary Victorian travelogues, The Malay Archipelago has a fair claim to be the greatest both as a beautiful, alarming, vivid and gripping account of some eight y...
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You Could Make This Place Beautiful
Maggie SmithINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NPR Best Book of the Year Time Best Book of the Year Oprah Daily Best Memoir of the Year“A bittersweet study in both grief and joy.” Time“A sp...
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Ghosted
Jenn AshworthSHORTLISTED FOR THE PORTICO PRIZE 2022 'Unnerving, absorbing . . . Laurie is a miraculous creation . . . Piercingly human and darkly funny' Sunday TimesOne ordinary morning, Laurie...
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Out of the Woods
Lynn DarlingCombining the soulbaring insight of Wild, the profound wisdom of Shop Class as Soulcraft, and the adventurous spirit of Eat, Pray, Love: Lynn Darling’s powerful, lyrical memoir of ...
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Seegang
Tabitha Lasley»Ich wollte sehen, wie Männer sind, ohne Frauen in der Nähe.«Tabitha Lasley ist Mitte 30, Journalistin, und hat sich für ein paar Monate in einem zwielichtigen Viertel in Aberdeen,...
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Greenmantle
John BuchanIn Greenmantle (1916) Richard Hannay, hero of The ThirtyNine Steps, travels across wartorn Europe in search of a German plot and an Islamic Messiah. He is joined by three more of B...
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A Line Above the Sky
Helen MortGuardian Books to Watch 2022Evening Standard Books to Watch 2022Bookseller Editor's ChoiceWinner of the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature'A wonderful book exhilarating...
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Soldier Sailor
Claire KilroyThe Times (London) Novel of the Year Named a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian, Financial Times, The Economist, The Irish Times, The Daily Telegraph. (London), The New Statesm...
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Pillars Of Salt
Joanna BellAlice's world is blown apart when her husband Rob dies suddenly of a heart attack in another woman's bed. Only 40, Rob was an energetic, opinionated, handsome local GP. This wasn'...
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Molly Falls to Earth
Maria MutchAn enthralling debut novel by Governor General’s Literary Awards finalist Maria Mutch that is an inventive exploration of time, absence, and desire.I feel in some strange place.In ...
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We Were Young
Niamh Campbell'Witty, fiery, wistful and even shocking, with engrossing heady prose, Campbell's style is unique' Irish Independent'An immensely enjoyable novel, and a great validation of Campbel...
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The Hard Crowd
Rachel KushnerNow includes a new essay, “Naked Childhood,” about Kushner’s family, their converted school bus, and the Summers of Love in Oregon and San Francisco!“The Hard Crowd is wild, widera...
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A Woman Of No Importance
Kate KonopickyIf there's one thing that everyone has an opinion about it's how to bring up a child especially your child. Kate Konopicky found herself an embattled mother, knowing that however...
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Transiti
Rachel CuskUna scrittrice si trasferisce a Londra in seguito alla fine del suo matrimonio e dopo lunghe ricerche decide di acquistare un appartamento totalmente da ristrutturare. Mentre la pr...
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Her Side of the Story
Alba de Céspedes, Jill Foulston & Elena Ferrante“A courageous novel, beautifully imagined and written.” Elena Lappin, The Washington Post"De Cespedes' work has lost none of its subversive force”The New York Times Book Revie...
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The Rainbow
D. H. LawrenceA novel which chronicles the lines of three generations of the Brangwen family and the emergence of modern England.Set between the 1840s and the early years of the twentieth centur...
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Fantasticland
Ana WajszczukÍntima y realista, una visión única y personal de la maternidad narrada con desenfado y gracia. ¿Cuántas veces puede intentarse algo por última vez? Muchas, todas. La madre de Fant...
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Adam Bede
George Eliot & Margaret ReynoldsCarpenter Adam Bede is in love with the beautiful Hetty Sorrel, but unknown to him, he has a rival, in the local squire’s son Arthur Donnithorne. Hetty is soon attracted by Arthur’...
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Thirst for Salt
Madelaine LucasA Bustle, LitHub, Debutiful, and NYLON Most Anticipated Book of 2023A Goodreads Buzziest Book of the New Year“A love affair so richly and attentively imagined it carries the grace ...
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Scorpionfish
Natalie BakopoulosA captivating and transporting travel novel, Scorpionfish reveals how what we leave behind may be exactly what we've been looking for all along.After the unexpected deaths of her p...
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Resoconto
Rachel Cusk«Un libro di rara bellezza cui continuo a pensare da quando l'ho letto sei mesi fa». Kazuo Ishiguro «Chiusa l'ultima pagina, hai la sensazione che qualcuno ti abbia rivelato la ver...
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Saving Agnes
Rachel CuskThe acclaimed winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award, by the author of The Country LifeChronically confused, terminally middle class, hopelessly romantic, Agnes Day lives with h...
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The Details
Ia Genberg & Kira JosefssonFeatured in The New Yorker's "Best Books of 2023""The literal fever that begins the book mirrors the feverish beginnings and endings of these relationships, as well as the fever of...
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Misrecognition
Madison NewboundFor fans of Rachel Cusk and Patricia Lockwood, an unflinchingly sharp and funny debut novel about the internet, postpostmodern adulthood, and queer identity. Elsa is struggling. He...
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Envy
Judy CorbettWhat happens when your beloved only daughter's friend turns out to be a destructive cuckoo in the nest? When girlish charm turns to seduction and teenage friendship to manipulation...
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Marie Joseph Omnibus
Marie JosephHere in a specially chosen edition are three of Marie Joseph's bestloved novels.GEMINI GIRLS:Libby and Carrie were more than sisters. Mirror images, they were different sides of th...
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The Promise of a Normal Life
Rebecca Kaiser GibsonFor readers of Marilynne Robinson, Elizabeth Strout, and Katie Kitamura, the indelible journey of a quiet young womanthe “silent person” in the Sederfinding her way. Hailed ...
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Intimacies
Katie KitamuraA NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOK OF 2021LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTIONONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE 2021 READSAN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER A BEST BOOK OF 202...
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Mouth to Mouth
Antoine WilsonONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2022 An NPR and Time Best Book of the Year Longlisted for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize (Canada) Finalist for CALIBA’s 2022 Golden Pop...
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Straying
Molly McCloskey“A memoirvivid portrait of a vertiginous affair” (Vogue) for readers of Jenny Offill, Garth Greenwell, and Anne Enright, an unforgettable novel about a young American expat who set...
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Onori
Rachel Cusk«Onori raggiunge la perfezione formale. Cusk ha concluso la sua magistrale trilogia in modo trionfale».Sally Rooney Una donna in viaggio ascolta un estraneo seduto di fianco a lei ...
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Wie alle anderen
John BurnsideVon Kritikern und Lesern gefeiert: nach »Lügen über meinen Vater« der zweite Band von Burnsides autobiografischer ReiheNach Jahren des Vorsatzes, niemals so zu werden wie sein Vate...