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by Rachel Cusk · 2014

Literary Fiction · ranked #58 in category

A novelist travels to Athens to teach a writing course and has a series of conversations — on the plane, on a boat, at dinner, in workshops — which slowly reveal the outline of her own character through what others choose to tell her. Cusk's novel invented a form: a narrator defined entirely by absence, and by the stories of others that pour into that absence.

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Category
Literary Fiction
First published
2014 · 2010s
Author
Rachel Cusk
Standing
Essential Read

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