Outline (Outline #1)
Rachel Cusk
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars
3.70
· 30 ratings · 256 pages · Published: 14 Sep 2014
Beginning with the neighbouring passenger on the flight out and his tales of fast boats and failed marriages, the storytellers talk of their loves and ambitions and pains, their anxieties, their perceptions and daily lives. In the stifling heat and noise of the city the sequence of voice begins to weave a complex human tapestry. The more they talk the more elliptical their listener becomes, as she shapes and directs their accounts until certain themes begin to emerge: the experience of loss, the nature of family life, the difficulty of intimacy and the mystery of creativity itself.
Outline is a novel about writing and talking, about self-effacement and self-expression, about the desire to create and the human art of self-portraiture in which that desire finds its universal form.
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adult · contemporary · audiobook · female-author · 21st-century · feminism · fiction · literary-fiction · book · family · drama · marriage · psychological
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