**From Rachel Cusk, her first collection of essays about motherhood, marriage, feminism, and art** Rachel Cusk redrew the boundaries of fiction with the Outline Trilogy, three "literary masterpieces" (_The Washington Post_) whose narrator, Faye, perceives the world with a glinting, unsparing intell
Coventry essays
โ Scribed by Rachel Cusk
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Canada;HarperCollins Publishers
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 126 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
A selection of her non-fiction writings that offer both new insights on the themes at the heart of her fiction and forge a startling critical voice on some of our most personal, social and artistic questions.
Coventry encompasses memoir, cultural criticism and writing about literature, with pieces on family life, gender, politics, D.H. Lawrence, Francoise Sagan and Elena Ferrante. Named for an essay in Granta ("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.
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