Rachel Cusk
Author
Publisher
Libros del Asteroide
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
Formats
Description
Una inteligente reflexión, un libro pionero que se ha convertido en un referente para toda una generación de escritoras.
Rachel Cusk relata en estas páginas sus primeras experiencias como madre y reflexiona con desacostumbrada franqueza sobre lo que supone esta etapa: un adiós a la libertad, al sueño y al tiempo, un viaje a las raíces del amor y una esforzada lección de humildad. La autora analiza brillantemente cuestiones
...2) Second place
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the author of the Outline trilogy, a fable of human destiny and decline, enacted in a closed system of intimate, fractured relationships. A woman invites a famous artist to use her guesthouse in the remote coastal landscape where she lives with her family. Powerfully drawn to his paintings, she believes his vision might penetrate the mystery at the center of her life. But as a long, dry summer sets in, his provocative presence itself becomes...
3) Outline
Author
Series
Outline volume 1
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Rachel Cusk's Outline is a novel in ten conversations. Spare and stark, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing during an oppressively hot summer in Athens. She leads her students in storytelling exercises. She meets other visiting writers for dinners and discourse. She goes swimming with an elderly Greek bachelor. The people she encounters speak, volubly, about themselves: their fantasies, anxieties, pet theories, regrets, and...
4) Transit
Author
Series
Outline volume 2
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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,...