Outline
(OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, OverDrive Listen)
A luminous, powerful novel
that establishes Rachel Cusk as one of the finest writers in the English
language
A man and a woman are
seated next to each other on a plane. They get to talking—about their
destination, their careers, their families. Grievances are aired, family
tragedies discussed, marriages and divorces analyzed. An intimacy is
established as two strangers contrast their own fictions about their lives.
Outline is a novel in ten conversations. Spare and stark, it follows a novelist
teaching a course in creative writing during one oppressively hot summer in
Athens. She leads her students in storytelling exercises. She meets other
visiting writers for dinner and discourse. She goes swimming in the Ionian Sea
with her neighbor from the plane. 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 takes a hard look at the things that are hardest to speak about. It
brilliantly captures conversations, investigates people's motivations for
storytelling, and questions their ability to ever do so honestly or
unselfishly. In doing so it bares the deepest impulses behind the craft of
fiction writing. This is Rachel Cusk's finest work yet and one of the most
startling, brilliant, original novels of recent years.
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Rachel Cusk. (2015). Outline. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Rachel Cusk. 2015. Outline. Blackstone Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Rachel Cusk, Outline. Blackstone Publishing, 2015.
MLA Citation (style guide)Rachel Cusk. Outline. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing, 2015.
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Kingsley Amis' (1922-1995) works take a humorous yet highly critical look at British society, especially of the period following the end of World War II. Born in London, Amis explored his disillusionment with British society in novels such as THAT UNCERTAIN FEELING (1955). His other works include THE GREEN MAN (1970); STANLEY AND THE WOMEN (1984); and THE OLD DEVILS (1986) which won the Booker Prize. Amis also wrote poetry, criticism, and short stories.
Rachel Cusk was born in 1967. She has won the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Somerset Maugham Award, and is the author of two works of non-fiction and seven novels, including In The Fold, longlisted for the 2005 Man Booker Prize, and Arlington Park, shortlisted for the Orange Broadband Prize 2007. Her non-fiction book, A Life's Work, was published to huge acclaim in 2001, and her account of a summer spent in Italy with her family, The Last Supper, was published in 2009. Her most recent novel, The Bradshaw Variations was published in 2009. In 2003 she was chosen as one of Granta's Best Young Novelists. She lives in Brighton.
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A man and a woman are seated next to each other on a plane. They get to talking—about their destination, their careers, their families. Grievances are aired, family tragedies discussed, marriages and divorces analyzed. An intimacy is established as two strangers contrast their own fictions about their lives.
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Outline takes a hard look at the things that are hardest to speak about. It brilliantly captures conversations, investigates people's motivations for storytelling, and questions their ability to ever do so honestly or unselfishly. In doing so it bares the deepest impulses behind the craft of fiction writing. This is Rachel Cusk's finest work yet and one of the most startling, brilliant, original novels of recent years.
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Starred review from October 27, 2014
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