It’s a novel that feels timeless, while dealing with ferocious modern questions. There is the erudition of the author’s Outline trilogy here, but with a tightly contained dramatic narrative. Cusk expertly handles the logistics of the crowded setting, building tension as the characters form unexpected, temporary alliances-Kurt and L, Brett and Justine-and M’s isolation increases. L paints portraits of everyone except M-which devastates her. An intoxicating, compact debut novel by the winner of Columbia's Henfield Prize, Tides is an astoundingly powerful portrait of a deeply unpredictable woman who walks out of her life and washes up in a seaside town. The characters enter an uneasy equilibrium on the marsh as allusions of a global financial disaster fill in the backdrop. M’s daughter, Justine, and her new boyfriend, Kurt, who reminds M of her first husband, move into the cabin just before L shows up with a gorgeous young woman named Brett. L’s art deeply affected M 15 years earlier when she was a young mother and was struck by the work’s “freedom” and how it was “elementally and unrepentingly male down to the last brushstroke.” To her surprise, L accepts, before canceling. They have built a guest cabin on their property, which they call the “second place.” Through a mutual friend, M invites a painter, L, to stay in the cabin. By Rachel Cusk Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 192 pages, 25 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from, whose fees support. The narrator, M, is a writer living on an isolated coastal marsh with her second husband, Tony. Download Book 'Second Place' by Author 'Rachel Cusk' in PDF EPUB. Cusk’s intelligent, sparkling return (after Kudos) centers on a woman in crisis.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |