Bibliograph

Outline, Rachel Cusk

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Label

Outline, Rachel Cusk

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Outline

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Rachel Cusk

Summary

Outline is a novel in ten conversations. Spare and lucid, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing during an oppressively hot summer in Athens. She leads her students in storytelling exercises. She meets other visiting writers for dinner. She goes swimming with an elderly Greek bachelor. 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. Outline is Rachel Cusk's finest work yet, and one of the most startling, brilliant and original novels of recent years

Target audience

adult

Classification