Outline / Rachel Cusk.
Publisher: New York : Picador Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016Copyright date: 2014Edition: First Picador editionDescription: 249 pages ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781250081544
- 1250081548
- PR6053 .U825 O95 2016
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Book | NMC Library | Stacks | PR6053 .U825 O95 2016 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 33039001460640 |
Outline is a novel in ten conversations. Spare and lucid, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing over an oppressively hot summer in Athens. She leads her students in storytelling exercises. She meets other visiting writers for dinner. She goes swimming in the Ionian Sea with her neighbor from the plane. The people she encounters speak volubly about themselves: their fantasies, anxieties, pet theories, regrets, and longings. And through these disclosures, a portrait of the narrator is drawn by contrast, a portrait of a woman learning to face a great loss.