Cusk (The Country Life Saving Agnes) unites her tales via her characters' lonely, isolated conditions and the knotty relationships between parents and children-from Kristy, an imprisoned mother-to-be who gives birth in the back of a squad car in "Confinement," to Mrs. From Publishers Weekly:īilled as a novel of "overlapping relationships," Whitbread-winner Cusk's evocative latest, with its tenuously connected sections, feels more like a short story collection linked by theme and a few shared characters. Her non-fiction account of becoming a mother, A LIFE'S WORK, was one of the most talked about books of last year.
Rachel Cusk is the author of three novels: SAVING AGNES, which won the Whitbread First Novel Award, THE TEMPORARY, and THE COUNTRY LIFE, which won a Somerset Maugham Award. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. It illuminates with startling precision the texture and complexity of emotional existence within 'the bustling concourses of life.' The Lucky Ones is a novel about creating and sustaining life. The much-praised new novel from award-winning author Rachel Cusk, who was one of Granta's Best of British writers.In this profound study of human relationships, five overlapping narratives of love and detachment merge to form a powerful evocation of family identity.A young pregnant woman's misfortune a new father's disaffection a daughter's search for lost childhood a mother's antagonism a wife's secret suffering - through it all runs the story of Victor Porter, a campaigning lawyer, and his journalist wife Serena, in whose relationship the conflict between the public and the personal, between love and morality, is played out.Rachel Cusk writes of life's transformations of what separates us from those we love and what binds us to those we no longer understand.
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