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008 190514s2017 nyu g 000 1 eng d
010 $a 2016025619
020 $a9780374278625 (hbk.) :$cNT$910
040 $aTWTNM$beng$dTWTNM
050 00$aPR6053.U825$bT73 2017
082 04$a823.914$222
100 1 $aCusk, Rachel,$d1967-$eauthor.
245 10$aTransit /$cRachel Cusk.
250 $aFirst American edition.
260 $aNew York :$bFarrar, Straus and Giroux,$c2017.
300 $a260 p. ;$c22 cm.
500 $a"Originally published in 2016 by Jonathan Cape, Great Britain"--Title page verso,.
500 $aSequel to: Outline.
520 $a"The stunning second novel of a trilogy that began with Outline, one of The New York Times Book Review's ten best books of 2015 In the wake of family collapse, a writer and her two young sons move to London. The process of upheaval is the catalyst for a number of transitions--personal, moral, artistic, practical--as she endeavors to construct a new reality for herself and her children. In the city she is made to confront aspects of living she has, until now, avoided, and to consider questions of vulnerability and power, death and renewal, in what becomes her struggle to reattach herself to, and believe in, life. Filtered through the impersonal gaze of its keenly intelligent protagonist, Transit sees Rachel Cusk delve deeper into the themes first raised in her critically acclaimed Outline, and offers up a penetrating and moving reflection on childhood and fate, the value of suffering, the moral problems of personal responsibility, and the mystery of change. In this precise, short, and yet epic cycle of novels, Cusk manages to describe the most elemental experiences, the liminal qualities of life, through a narrative near-silence that draws language toward it. She captures with unsettling restraint and honesty the longing to both inhabit and flee one's life and the wrenching ambivalence animating our desire to feel real. "--$cProvided by publisher.
520 $a"Sequel to Rachel Cusk's Outline"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0$aEnglish teachers$vFiction.