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Medea - Euripides, in a New Version by Rachel Cusk by Eurípides; Rachel Cusk (Adapted by)
Category: Plays | Series: Oberon Classics Ser.
Medea's marriage is breaking up. And so is everything else. Testing the limits of revenge and liberty, Euripides' seminal play cuts to the heart of gender politics and asks what it means to be a woman and a wife. One of world drama's most infamous characters is brought to controversial new life by award ...Show more
Outline by Rachel Cusk
Category: Fiction | Series: Outline Trilogy Ser.
"SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION A woman arrives in Athens in the height of summer to teach a writing course. Once there, she becomes the audience to a chain of narratives as the people she meets tell her one after another the stories of their lives. Beginning with the neighbouring ...Show more
Outline by Rachel Cusk
Category: Fiction
"SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION A woman arrives in Athens in the height of summer to teach a writing course. Once there, she becomes the audience to a chain of narratives as the people she meets tell her one after another the stories of their lives. Beginning with the neighbouring ...Show more
Outline: A Novel by Rachel Cusk
Category: Fiction | Series: Outline Trilogy
Outline is a novel in ten conversations. Spare and lucid, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing over an oppressively hot summer in Athens. She leads her student in storytelling exercises. She meets other writers for dinner. She goes swimming in the Ionian Sea with her seatmate from ...Show more
Outline (Outline Trilogy #1) by Rachel Cusk
Category: Fiction
A woman writer goes to Athens in the height of summer to teach a writing course. Though her own circumstances remain indistinct, she becomes the audience to a chain of narratives, as the people she meets tell her one after another the stories of their lives. Beginning with the neighbouring passenger on ...Show more
Outline (Outline Trilogy #1, US ed.) by Rachel Cusk
Category: Fiction | Series: Outline Trilogy Ser.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION A woman arrives in Athens in the height of summer to teach a writing course. Once there, she becomes the audience to a chain of narratives as the people she meets tell her one after another the stories of their lives. Beginning with the neighbouring ...Show more
Parade by Rachel Cusk
Category: Fiction
A writer hides. A mother dies. A woman is attacked. In Parade, Rachel Cusk creates a new documentary voice that operates on the border between fiction and reality. It braids imagined characters with the actual, experience with the philosophical, to altering effect. Midway through his life, an artist beg ...Show more
Parade - UK HB by Rachel Cusk
Category: Fiction
A path-breaking novel of art, womanhood and violence, from the author of the Outline trilogy. Midway through his life, an artist begins to paint upside down. In Paris, a woman is attacked by a stranger in the street. A mother dies. A man falls to his death. Couples seek escape in distant lands. The ...Show more
Saving Agnes by Rachel Cusk
Category: Fiction
Winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award Agnes Day - sub-editor, suburbanite, failure extraordinaire - has discovered disconcerting gaps in her general understanding of the world. Terminally middle-class and incurably romantic, Agnes finds herself chronically confused by the most basic interactions. L ...Show more
Saving Agnes by Rachel Cusk
Category: Fiction
Agnes Day is a twenty-something sub-editor and failure extraordinaire, with a close circle of friends and a habit of falling for the wrong man. Terminally middle-class, incurably romantic and chronically confused by life's most basic equations, Agnes hovers on the cusp of adolescence and adulthood, priv ...Show more