The narrator of Rachel Cusk's new novel Outline is a novelist and divorced mother of two who has agreed to teach a summer course in creative writing in Athens. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. This is Rachel Cusk’s finest work yet, and one of the most startling, brilliant, original novels of recent years. ( From the publisher.Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Outline Author Rachel Cusk In doing so it bares the deepest impulses behind the craft of fiction writing. It brilliantly captures conversations, investigates people’s motivations for storytelling, and questions their ability to ever do so honestly or unselfishly. Outline takes a hard look at the things that are hardest to speak about. And through these disclosures, a portrait of the narrator is drawn by contrast, a portrait of a woman learning to face a great loss. The people she encounters speak volubly about themselves: their fantasies, anxieties, pet theories, regrets, and longings. She goes swimming in the Ionian Sea with her neighbor from the plane.
She meets other visiting writers for dinner and discourse. She leads her students in storytelling exercises. Spare and stark, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing during one oppressively hot summer in Athens. Rachel Cusk’s Outline is a novel in ten conversations. An intimacy is established as two strangers contrast their own fictions about their lives. Grievances are aired, family tragedies discussed, marriages and divorces analyzed. They get to talking-about their destination, their careers, their families. A luminous, powerful novel that establishes Rachel Cusk as one of the finest writers in the English language.Ī man and a woman are seated next to each other on a plane.
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