Coventry: Essays - Hardcover

Cusk, Rachel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0374126771 ISBN 13: 9780374126773

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019

Synopsis

<p><b>NPR's Favorite Books of 2019</b><br><br>Rachel Cusk redrew the boundaries of fiction with the Outline Trilogy, three “literary masterpieces” (<i>The Washington Post</i>) whose narrator, Faye, perceives the world with a glinting, unsparing intelligence while remaining opaque to the reader. Lauded for the precision of her prose and the quality of her insight, Cusk is a writer of uncommon brilliance. Now, in <i>Coventry</i>, she gathers a selection of her nonfiction writings that both offers new insights on the themes at the heart of her fiction and forges a startling critical voice on some of our most urgent personal, social, and artistic questions.<br><br><i>Coventry</i> encompasses memoir, cultural criticism, and writing about literature, with pieces on family life, gender, and politics, and on D. H. Lawrence, Françoise Sagan, and Kazuo Ishiguro. Named for an essay Cusk published in <i>Granta</i> (“Every so often, for offences actual or hypothetical, my mother and father stop speaking to me. There’s a funny phrase for this phenomenon in England: it’s called being sent to Coventry”), this collection is pure Cusk and essential reading for our age: fearless, unrepentantly erudite, and dazzling to behold.</p>

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About the Author

<b>Rachel Cusk</b> is the author of <i>Outline</i>, <i>Transit</i>, <i>Kudos</i>; the memoirs <i>A Life’s Work</i>, <i>The Last Supper</i>, and <i>Aftermath</i>; and several other novels: <i>Saving Agnes</i>, winner of the Whitbread Award; <i>The Temporary</i>; <i>The Country Life</i>, which won the Somerset Maugham Award; <i>The Lucky Ones</i>; <i>In the Fold</i>; <i>Arlington Park</i>; and <i>The Bradshaw Variations</i>. She was chosen as one of <i>Granta</i>’s 2003 Best of Young British Novelists. She lives in London.

Edition details

• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0374126771
• ISBN 13: 9780374126773
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 256