Rachel Cusk
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Rachel Cusk was born on Feb 8, 1967 in Canada. She spent much of her childhood in Los Angeles and finished her education at St Mary's Convent, Cambridge. her education at St Mary's Convent, Cambridge. In 2003, Rachel Cusk was nominated by Granta magazine as one of 20 'Best of Young British visa mer Novelists'. That year she published The Lucky Ones (2003), her fourth novel, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel Award. Since then she has published four more novels; her latest is Outline (2014). She has also written several non-fiction books. A Life's Work: On Becoming a Mother (2001) is a personal exploration of motherhood. The Last Supper: A Summer in Italy (2009) is a memoir about time in southern Italy. In 2015 she made the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction shortlist with her title Outline. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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- Vedertaget namn
- Cusk, Rachel
- Födelsedag
- 1967-02-08
- Kön
- female
- Nationalitet
- Canada
- Födelseort
- Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
- Bostadsorter
- Los Angeles, California, USA
London, England, UK - Utbildning
- University of Oxford (New College)
St Mary's Convent, Cambridge, England, UK - Yrken
- author
- Relationer
- Clarke, Adrian (ex-husband)
- Priser och utmärkelser
- Granta Best of Young British Novelists (2003)
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2021 Booker Prize Longlist: Second Place by Rachel Cusk i Booker Prize (augusti 2021)
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Booker Prize (2)
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- Verk
- 23
- Även av
- 15
- Medlemmar
- 6,622
- Popularitet
- #3,701
- Betyg
- 3.6
- Recensioner
- 333
- ISBN
- 355
- Språk
- 21
- Favoritmärkt
- 12
Having read Cusk before, I had expectations of insights into ground I thought I knew quite well. At first, I was not disappointed. Her wry insights into the pages of Contatti and observations of the characters she encounters on her travels were a delight. But then, a veil descends and she (and her family) vanish from sight. We are not given much of a glimpse of her husband or her children. The veil is not really lifted until the last pages of the book. Ultimately, there is a kind of profoundly English drabness that makes the veil a kind of smog. It seems to keep Cusk from sharing her intelligence beyond the superficial descriptions of place and people (which she does well and with economy) but there is and was so much more to explore that, by the end, I felt cheated by the limitations and constraints of this resolute Englishness. In a curious way the selection of photographs mirror the text. Their resolution not quite enough to be fully readable, some obscure, many superfluous.
This is not to say there were not moments in the Last Supper that make it worth reading. The enchantment of their stay in the Ardèche with Bertrand lingers. There is a vitality surrounding the tennis matches with Jim and Amanda that makes me feel as if I was present. Cusk lightly touches on the way time expands and contracts, on being together as a family, on the way children can bond instantly, on not being a tourist but not quite belonging, on not finding a place to stay the night, on the forces of disorder in Naples, on being Italian, but she just touches, she doesn't fully embrace anything except her standoffishness and the inevitability of returning to her fold. I think her writing works best when she is present and visible; not hiding behind a veil of descriptive commentary.… (mer)