· Book Review: 'Outline,' By Rachel Cusk | Reviewer Heller McAlpin says Rachel Cusk, known for her lacerating memoirs, begins to bring her fiction Estimated Reading Time: 5 mins. Rachel Cusk's Outline is a novel in ten conversations. Spare and stark, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing during one oppressively hot summer in Athens. She leads her students in storytelling exercises. She meets other visiting writers for dinner and discourse. · The narrator of Rachel Cusk’s lethally intelligent novel, “Outline,” is a cipher who inspires other people to www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 8 mins.
Like many authors, Rachel Cusk tries to get her writing done in the morning. On a good day, Cusk will be up by 5AM. Her objective is to get as much work done as possible before the rest of the house rises. +Outline A female writer goes to Greece to teach. Along the way, she witnesses all manner of events, interactions, and occurrences. "Outline," Rachel Cusk's 11th book, manifests its title through spare prose and an elusive protagonist. Each chapter is a sketch; by the end, we have at least a silhouette of the enigmatic. Rachel Cusk's Outline is a novel in ten conversations. Spare and stark, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing during one oppressively hot summer in Athens. She leads her students in storytelling exercises. She meets other visiting writers for dinner and discourse.
Outline review – Rachel Cusk's Greek chorus enthrals and appals. Rachel Cusk's daring new novel finds the narrator – a novelist teaching in Athens – submerged by a cacophony of vivid voices. This post-divorce saga is one of several in Rachel Cusk’s new novel. It is one of the more dynamic episodes. Yet Outline is most concerned with the storyteller’s inner drama. One of Cusk’s key themes is the workings of the self when it is forced back on its own resources in the wake of separation, loss and solitude. “Rachel Cusk's Outline is full of baking light and quiet melancholy and bodies brushing past one another in the heat; it's a subtle and utterly engrossing exploration of the ways we make ourselves known to one another--in stories and anecdotes, through seductions and disputes--and yet remain opaque; how we sketch ourselves as outlines and find these outlines interrogated. Its conversations echo each other deftly, their acute insights gracefully pulling apart the seams of its carefully.
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