Coventry: Essays
Rachel Cusk
NPR's Favorite Books of 2019 Rachel Cusk redrew the boundaries of fiction with the Outline Trilogy, three "literary masterpieces" (The Washington Post) whose narrator, Faye, perceives the world with a glinting, unsparing intelligence while remaining opaque to the reader. Lauded for the precision of her prose and the quality of her insight, Cusk is a writer of uncommon brilliance. Now, in Coventry, she gathers a selection of her nonfiction writings that both offers new insights on the themes at the heart of her fiction and forges a startling critical voice on some of our most urgent personal, social, and artistic questions. Coventry encompasses memoir, cultural criticism, and writing about literature, with pieces on family life, gender, and politics, and on D. H. Lawrence, Fran oise Sagan, and Kazuo Ishiguro. Named for an essay Cusk published in Granta ("Every so often, for offences actual or hypothetical, my mother and father stop speaking to me. There's a funny phrase for this phenomenon in England: it's called being sent to Coventry"), this collection is pure Cusk and essential reading for our age: fearless, unrepentantly erudite, and dazzling to behold.Binding Type: HardcoverAuthor: Rachel CuskPublisher: Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublished: 09/17/2019ISBN: 9780374126773Pages: 256Weight: 0.82lbsSize: 8.30h x 5.60w x 1.00dReview Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 03/01/2019 pg. 95Publishers Weekly 05/27/2019Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2019 pg. 57Library Journal 07/01/2019 pg. 67Booklist 07/01/2019 pg. 14Shelf Awareness 10/01/2019
Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: Rachel Cusk
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 09/17/2019
ISBN: 9780374126773
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.60w x 1.00d
Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 03/01/2019 pg. 95
Publishers Weekly 05/27/2019
Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2019 pg. 57
Library Journal 07/01/2019 pg. 67
Booklist 07/01/2019 pg. 14
Shelf Awareness 10/01/2019
Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: Rachel Cusk
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 09/17/2019
ISBN: 9780374126773
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.60w x 1.00d
Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 03/01/2019 pg. 95
Publishers Weekly 05/27/2019
Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2019 pg. 57
Library Journal 07/01/2019 pg. 67
Booklist 07/01/2019 pg. 14
Shelf Awareness 10/01/2019
Book Title
Coventry: Essays
ISBN
9780374126773
NPR's Favorite Books of 2019
Rachel Cusk redrew the boundaries of fiction with the Outline Trilogy, three "literary masterpieces" (The Washington Post) whose narrator, Faye, perceives the world with a glinting, unsparing intelligence while remaining opaque to the reader. Lauded for the precision of her prose and the quality of her insight, Cusk is a writer of uncommon brilliance. Now, in Coventry, she gathers a selection of her nonfiction writings that both offers new insights on the themes at the heart of her fiction and forges a startling critical voice on some of our most urgent personal, social, and artistic questions. Coventry encompasses memoir, cultural criticism, and writing about literature, with pieces on family life, gender, and politics, and on D. H. Lawrence, Fran oise Sagan, and Kazuo Ishiguro. Named for an essay Cusk published in Granta ("Every so often, for offences actual or hypothetical, my mother and father stop speaking to me. There's a funny phrase for this phenomenon in England: it's called being sent to Coventry"), this collection is pure Cusk and essential reading for our age: fearless, unrepentantly erudite, and dazzling to behold.Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: Rachel Cusk
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 09/17/2019
ISBN: 9780374126773
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.60w x 1.00d
Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 03/01/2019 pg. 95
Publishers Weekly 05/27/2019
Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2019 pg. 57
Library Journal 07/01/2019 pg. 67
Booklist 07/01/2019 pg. 14
Shelf Awareness 10/01/2019
NPR's Favorite Books of 2019
Rachel Cusk redrew the boundaries of fiction with the Outline Trilogy, three "literary masterpieces" (The Washington Post) whose narrator, Faye, perceives the world with a glinting, unsparing intelligence while remaining opaque to the reader. Lauded for the precision of her prose and the quality of her insight, Cusk is a writer of uncommon brilliance. Now, in Coventry, she gathers a selection of her nonfiction writings that both offers new insights on the themes at the heart of her fiction and forges a startling critical voice on some of our most urgent personal, social, and artistic questions. Coventry encompasses memoir, cultural criticism, and writing about literature, with pieces on family life, gender, and politics, and on D. H. Lawrence, Fran oise Sagan, and Kazuo Ishiguro. Named for an essay Cusk published in Granta ("Every so often, for offences actual or hypothetical, my mother and father stop speaking to me. There's a funny phrase for this phenomenon in England: it's called being sent to Coventry"), this collection is pure Cusk and essential reading for our age: fearless, unrepentantly erudite, and dazzling to behold.Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: Rachel Cusk
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 09/17/2019
ISBN: 9780374126773
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.60w x 1.00d
Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 03/01/2019 pg. 95
Publishers Weekly 05/27/2019
Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2019 pg. 57
Library Journal 07/01/2019 pg. 67
Booklist 07/01/2019 pg. 14
Shelf Awareness 10/01/2019