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Coventry
- Author
- Rachel Cusk
- Narrator
- Antonia Beamish
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Publish Date
- 17 October 2019
- Run Time
- 7 hours 29 minutes
- Format
- x-book®
- Genre
- Essays
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What to expect
After the publication of
Outline,
Transit and
Kudos - in which Rachel Cusk redrew the boundaries of fiction - this writer of uncommon brilliance returns with a series of essays that offers new insights on the themes at the heart of her life's work. Encompassing memoir and cultural and literary criticism, with pieces on gender, politics and writers such as D. H. Lawrence, Olivia Manning and Natalia Ginzburg, this collection is essential reading for our age: fearless, unrepentantly erudite, both startling and rewarding to behold.
The result is a cumulative sense of how the frank, deeply intelligent sensibility - so evident in her stories and novels - reverberates in the wider context of Cusk's literary process.
Coventry grants its readers a rare opportunity to see a mind at work that will influence literature for time to come.
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Details
- Author
- Rachel Cusk
- Narrator
- Antonia Beamish
- Duration
- 7 hours 29 minutes
- Release Date
- 17 October 2019
- ISBN
- 9780571360611
- Format
- x-book®
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Genre
- Essays
Synopsis
After the publication of Outline, Transit and Kudos - in which Rachel Cusk redrew the boundaries of fiction - this writer of uncommon brilliance returns with a series of essays that offers new insights on the themes at the heart of her life's work. Encompassing memoir and cultural and literary criticism, with pieces on gender, politics and writers such as D. H. Lawrence, Olivia Manning and Natalia Ginzburg, this collection is essential reading for our age: fearless, unrepentantly erudite, both startling and rewarding to behold. The result is a cumulative sense of how the frank, deeply intelligent sensibility - so evident in her stories and novels - reverberates in the wider context of Cusk's literary process. Coventry grants its readers a rare opportunity to see a mind at work that will influence literature for time to come.
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