Transit
✍ Scribed by Rachel Cusk
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 134 KB
- Edition
- 1st American ed
- Category
- Fiction
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✦ Synopsis
The stunning second novel of a trilogy that began with Outline , one of The New York Times Book Review 's ten best books of 2015
In the wake of family collapse, a writer and her two young sons move to London. The process of upheaval is the catalyst for a number of transitions--personal, moral, artistic, practical--as she endeavors to construct a new reality for herself and her children. In the city she is made to confront aspects of living she has, until now, avoided, and to consider questions of vulnerability and power, death and renewal, in what becomes her struggle to reattach herself to, and believe in, life.
Filtered through the impersonal gaze of its keenly intelligent protagonist, Transit sees Rachel Cusk delve deeper into the themes first raised in her critically acclaimed Outline , and offers up a penetrating and moving reflection on childhood and fate, the value of suffering, the moral problems of personal...
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