TY - BOOK AU - Cusk,Rachel TI - Outline SN - 9781250081544 AV - PR6053 .U825 O95 2016 PY - 2016/// CY - New York PB - Picador Farrar, Straus and Giroux KW - Fiction KW - Authorship KW - Athens (Greece) N2 - 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 ER -