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A Life's Work by Rachel Cusk
Category: Biography
When first published in 2001, it divided female critics and readers. One famous columnist wrote a piece demanding that Cusk's children were taken into care, that was she was unfit to look after them. Oprah Winfrey invited her on the show to defend herself and the book as protests grew about the its hone ...Show more
A Life's Work by Rachel Cusk
Category: Parenting Pregnancy Childbirth
In this work, novelist Rachel Cusk tells the story of motherhood - an old story set in a new era of sexual equality. Her year of modern motherhood is many stories: a farewell to freedom, sleep and time; a lesson in humility and hard work; and a meditation on madness and mortality. Paperback
A Life's Work by Rachel Cusk
Category: Biography
When it was first published, Cusk's memoir of new motherhood shocked readers and critics alike- it was called 'as compulsive as a thriller' by the Observer, 'an incitement to riot' by Esther Freud and 'career suicide' by the New York Times. Cusk was accused of self-obsession, of hating her child and of ...Show more
A Life's Work by Rachel Cusk
Category: Biography Memoir
When first published in 2001, it divided female critics and readers. One famous columnist wrote a piece demanding that Cusk's children were taken into care, that she was unfit to look after them. Oprah Winfrey invited her on the show to defend herself and the book as protests grew about the its honest, ...Show more
A Life's Work: On Becoming a Mother by Rachel Cusk
Category: Biography
The experience of motherhood is an experience in contradiction. It is commonplace and it is impossible to imagine. It is prosaic and it is mysterious. It is at once banal, bizarre, compelling, tedious, comic, and catastrophic. To become a mother is to become the chief actor in a drama of human existence ...Show more
Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation by Rachel Cusk
Category: Personal Development
Using her own life as a starting point, Rachel looks at the issues that arise for a woman in the years after she has lived the defining experiences of feminity. She writes about marriage, separation, motherhood, work, money, domesticity and love. Cusk considers the kinds of generational knowledge the co ...Show more
Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation by Rachel Cusk
Category: Biography
In 2003, Rachel Cusk published A Life's Work, her provocative and startlingly funny memoir of the cataclysm of motherhood, and launched debates that continue to this day. Now, in her most relevant work yet, Cusk offers an intimate exploration of divorce and its tremendous impact on the lives of women--a ...Show more
Aftermath - On Marriage and Separation by Rachel Cusk
Category: Biography
In 2003, Rachel Cusk published A Life's Work, her provocative and startlingly funny memoir of the cataclysm of motherhood, and launched debates that continue to this day. Now, in her most relevant work yet, Cusk offers an intimate exploration of divorce and its tremendous impact on the lives of women--a ...Show more
Aftermath : On Marriage and Separation (U.S. ed.) by Rachel Cusk
Category: Biography Memoir
Arlington Park by Rachel Cusk
Category: Fiction
Juliet is enraged at the victory of men over women in family life. Amanda is warding off thoughts of death with obsessive housework. Solly is confronting her own buried femininity in the person of her Italian lodger. Maisie despairs at the inevitability with which beauty is destroyed. And Christine's tr ...Show more
Arlington Park by Rachel Cusk
Category: Fiction
Arlington Park is an ordinary English suburb. Over the course of a single day, the novel moves from one household to another, revealing its characters: Juliet, enraged at the victory of men over women in family life; Amanda, warding off thoughts of death with obsessive housework; Solly, about to give bi ...Show more
Arlington Park by Rachel Cusk
Category: Fiction
Arlington Park, a modern-day English suburb, is a place devoted to the profitable ordinariness of life. Amidst its leafy avenues and comfortable houses, its residents live out the dubious accomplishments of civilisation: material prosperity, personal freedom, and moral indifference. For all that, Arling ...Show more