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Coventry: Essays

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Rachel Cusk redrew the boundaries of fiction with the Outline Trilogy, three "literary masterpieces" 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 Coventry, 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 personal, social, and artistic questions.

Coventry encompasses memoir, cultural criticism, and writing about literature, with pieces on family life, gender, and politics, and on D. H. Lawrence, Françoise Sagan, and Elena Ferrante. Named for an essay in Granta , this collection is pure Cusk and essential reading for our age: fearless, unrepentantly erudite, and dazzling to behold.

Language: English

Pages: 256

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Release: September 17, 2019

ISBN: 0374126771

ISBN 13: 9780374126773

Coventry: Essays

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Rachel Cusk redrew the boundaries of fiction with the Outline Trilogy, three "literary masterpieces" 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 Coventry, 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 personal, social, and artistic questions.

Coventry encompasses memoir, cultural criticism, and writing about literature, with pieces on family life, gender, and politics, and on D. H. Lawrence, Françoise Sagan, and Elena Ferrante. Named for an essay in Granta , this collection is pure Cusk and essential reading for our age: fearless, unrepentantly erudite, and dazzling to behold.

Language: English

Pages: 256

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Release: September 17, 2019

ISBN: 0374126771

ISBN 13: 9780374126773

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