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The Bradshaw Variations

Author : Rachel Cusk
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429931779
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Bradshaw Variations written by Rachel Cusk and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2010-03-30 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since quitting work to look after his eight-year-old daughter, Alexa, Thomas Bradshaw has found solace and grace in his daily piano study. His pursuit of a more artistic way of life shocks and irritates his parents and in-laws. Why has he swapped roles with Tonie Swann, his intense, intellectual wife, who has accepted a demanding full-time job? How can this be good for Alexa? Tonie is increasingly seduced away from domestic life by the harder, headier world of work, where long-forgotten memories of ambition are awakened. She soon finds herself outside their tight family circle, alive to previously unimaginable possibilities. Over the course of a year full of crisis and revelation, we follow the fortunes of Tonie, Thomas, and his brothers and their families: Howard, the successful, indulgent brother, and his gregarious wife, Claudia; and Leo, lacking in confidence and propped up by Susie, his sharp-tongued, heavy-drinking wife. At the head of the family, the aging Bradshaw parents descend on their children to question and undermine them. The Bradshaw Variations reveals how our choices, our loves, and the family life we build will always be an echo—a variation—of a theme played out in our own childhood. This masterful and often shockingly funny novel, Rachel Cusk's seventh, shows a prizewinning writer at the height of her powers.

Les variations Bradshaw

Author : Rachel Cusk
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782757821671
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (216 download)

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Download or read book Les variations Bradshaw written by Rachel Cusk and published by . This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Les Bradshaw inversent les rôles. Thomas abandonne un métier lucratif pour s'occuper du foyer et Tonie, sa femme, reprend un poste à l'université. Le quotidien est bouleversé : artiste, il apprend le piano ; ambitieuse, elle monte en grade. Jour après jour, le nouvel équilibre vacille et le couple se déchire au rythme des ambitions déçues, des rancoeurs inavouées et des révélations intimes.

Les variations Bradshaw

Author : Rachel Cusk
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782879296531
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (965 download)

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Download or read book Les variations Bradshaw written by Rachel Cusk and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chez les Bradshaw, depuis peu, les rôles sont inversés. Thomas a abandonné un métier lucratif pour rester à la maison. Il joue du piano, lit, prend (enfin) son temps. Tonie, sa femme, vient d'accepter un poste à l'université. Elle est ambitieuse, passionnée et... insatisfaite. Les Variations Bradshaw raconte une année de leur vie. Une année de crise, et de révélations. Rachel Cusk dissèque les ambitions déçues, les tragédies en mode mineur, cette cruauté du quotidien qui était au centre de son roman précédent, Arlington Park. Les Variations Bradshaw est un livre musical, d'une justesse absolue, sur la vie conjugale, ses délices et ses pièges.

Saving Agnes

Author : Rachel Cusk
Publisher : Picador
ISBN 13 : 1466891645
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Saving Agnes written by Rachel Cusk and published by Picador. This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award, by the author of The Country Life Chronically confused, terminally middle class, hopelessly romantic, Agnes Day lives with her two best friends in the London suburbs and works at an obscure trade magazine. Life and love seem to go on without her. But she gives a convincing performance that everything is alright--that is, until she learns that her roommates and her boyfriend are keeping secrets from her, and that her boss is quitting and leaving her in charge. In great despair, she decides to make it her business to set things straight. Rachel Cusk explores the business of growing up and moving on with a deftly comic, surprisingly moving touch, confirming her reputation as one of England's smartest and most entertaining young writers.

Outline

Author : Rachel Cusk
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374712360
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Outline written by Rachel Cusk and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2015-01-13 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A luminous, powerful novel that establishes Rachel Cusk as one of the finest writers in the English language A man and a woman are seated next to each other on a plane. They get to talking—about their destination, their careers, their families. Grievances are aired, family tragedies discussed, marriages and divorces analyzed. An intimacy is established as two strangers contrast their own fictions about their lives. 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. She goes swimming in the Ionian Sea with her neighbor from the plane. The people she encounters speak volubly about themselves: their fantasies, anxieties, pet theories, regrets, and longings. And through these disclosures, a portrait of the narrator is drawn by contrast, a portrait of a woman learning to face a great loss. Outline takes a hard look at the things that are hardest to speak about. It brilliantly captures conversations, investigates people's motivations for storytelling, and questions their ability to ever do so honestly or unselfishly. In doing so it bares the deepest impulses behind the craft of fiction writing. This is Rachel Cusk's finest work yet, and one of the most startling, brilliant, original novels of recent years. A Finalist for the Folio Prize, the Goldsmiths Prize, the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction One of The New York Times' Top Ten Books of the Year Named a A New York Times Book Review Notable Book and a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, Vogue, NPR, The Guardian, The Independent, Glamour, and The Globe and Mail

The Last Supper

Author : Rachel Cusk
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429930594
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Last Supper written by Rachel Cusk and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2010-04-27 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid and elegant account of a family's season abroad by one of our finest contemporary authors Casting off a northern winter and an orderly life, a family decides to sell everything and go to Italy to search for art and its meanings, for freedom from routine, for a different path into the future. The award-winning writer Rachel Cusk describes a three-month journey around the Italy of Raphael and rented villas, of the Piero della Francesca trail and the tourist furnace of Amalfi, of soccer and the simple glories of pasta and gelato. With her husband and two children, Cusk uncovers the mystery of a foreign language, the perils and pleasures of unbelonging, and the startling thrill of discovery -- at once historic and intimate. Both sharp and humane in its exploration of the desire to travel and to escape, of art and its inspirations, of beauty and ugliness, and of the challenge of balancing domestic life with creativity, The Last Supper is an astonishing memoir.

A Life's Work

Author : Rachel Cusk
Publisher : Picador
ISBN 13 : 1466891637
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book A Life's Work written by Rachel Cusk and published by Picador. This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multi-award-winning author Rachel Cusk’s honest memoir that captures the life-changing wonders of motherhood. Selected by The New York Times as one of the 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years “Funny and smart and refreshingly akin to a war diary—sort of Apocalypse Baby Now . . . A Life’s Work is wholly original and unabashedly true.” —The New York Times Book Review A Life’s Work: On Becoming a Mother is Rachel Cusk’s funny, moving, brutally honest account of her early experiences of motherhood. When it was published it 2001, it divided critics and readers. One famous columnist wrote a piece demanding that Cusk’s children be taken into care, saying she was unfit to look after them, and Oprah Winfrey invited her on the show to defend herself. An education in babies, books, breast-feeding, toddler groups, broken nights, bad advice and never being alone, it is a landmark work, which has provoked acclaim and outrage in equal measure.

The Personal History of Rachel DuPree

Author : Ann Weisgarber
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101190361
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Personal History of Rachel DuPree written by Ann Weisgarber and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-08-12 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning novel with incredible heart, about life on the prairie as it's rarely been seen When Rachel, hired help in a Chicago boardinghouse, falls in love with Isaac, the boardinghouse owner's son, he makes her a bargain: he'll marry her, but only if she gives up her 160 acres from the Homestead Act so he can double his share. She agrees, and together they stake their claim in the forebodingly beautiful South Dakota Badlands. Fourteen years later, in the summer of 1917, the cattle are bellowing with thirst. It hasn't rained in months, and supplies have dwindled. Pregnant, and struggling to feed her family, Rachel is isolated by more than just geography. She is determined to give her surviving children the life they deserve, but she knows that her husband, a fiercely proud former Buffalo Soldier, will never leave his ranch: black families are rare in the West, and land means a measure of equality with the white man. Somehow Rachel must find the strength to do what is right-for herself, and for her children. Reminiscent of The Color Purple as well as the frontier novels of Laura Ingalls Wilder and Willa Cather, The Personal History of Rachel DuPree opens a window on the little-known history of African American homesteaders and gives voice to an extraordinary heroine who embodies the spirit that built America.

Rachel Cusk

Author : Roberta Garrett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350371009
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Rachel Cusk written by Roberta Garrett and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-07-25 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rachel Cusk is one of the most critically acclaimed and controversial contemporary British authors. Her diverse body of work offers a striking portrait of trends in 21st-century literature, and the history of Cusk's literary output is one of experimentation and a desire to push against established cultural models. Rachel Cusk: Contemporary Critical Perspectives is the first critical guide to Cusk's work, spanning novels including Saving Agnes, A Country Life, and Second Place, her 'autofictional' Outline trilogy, and her nonfiction A Life's Work, The Last Supper, Aftermath and the Coventry essays. Rigorous and wide-ranging, this book provides an accessible and lucid introduction to Cusk's work, exploring themes of gender relations, class dynamics, maternal identity and creative freedom. The collection concludes with an in-depth interview with Cusk, conducted by Merve Emre, reflecting on her influences, writing and experiences. Mapping the formal and stylistic shift across her career and locating them within their specific contexts, this collection provides a crucial analysis of Cusk's influences, politics, and literary techniques that speak to many of the most pressing issues in contemporary literature.

Coventry

Author : Rachel Cusk
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374717435
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Coventry written by Rachel Cusk and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NPR's Favorite Books of 2019 Rachel Cusk redrew the boundaries of fiction with the Outline Trilogy, three “literary masterpieces” (The Washington Post) whose narrator, Faye, perceives the world with a glinting, unsparing intelligence while remaining opaque to the reader. Lauded for the precision of her prose and the quality of her insight, Cusk is a writer of uncommon brilliance. Now, in Coventry, she gathers a selection of her nonfiction writings that both offers new insights on the themes at the heart of her fiction and forges a startling critical voice on some of our most urgent personal, social, and artistic questions. Coventry encompasses memoir, cultural criticism, and writing about literature, with pieces on family life, gender, and politics, and on D. H. Lawrence, Françoise Sagan, and Kazuo Ishiguro. Named for an essay Cusk published in Granta (“Every so often, for offences actual or hypothetical, my mother and father stop speaking to me. There’s a funny phrase for this phenomenon in England: it’s called being sent to Coventry”), this collection is pure Cusk and essential reading for our age: fearless, unrepentantly erudite, and dazzling to behold.

Variations on Normal

Author : Dominic Wilcox
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473521262
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Variations on Normal written by Dominic Wilcox and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-08-21 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ingenious and amusing illustrated inventions from the brilliant mind of Dominic Wilcox 'I love this book. Laugh-out-loud funny. I want a salty thumb lolly now!' Harry Hill As we go about our day-to-day business, we see the same stuff every day. The bath, the fridge, the lamp post, the bicycle, the tree... so far, so humdrum. But not if you are Dominic Wilcox. Dominic sees things a little differently. For him, inside each of these everyday things are hundreds of surprising ideas waiting to be discovered. The Portable Bottom Seat, the Sick Bag Beard, Wrist Nets for the Butterfingered – Dominic's unexpected inventions, conflations and modifications promise to make your life that little bit easier, or at least more amusing. Normal will never seem quite so normal again.

Mr. Darcy's Obsession

Author : Abigail Reynolds
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1402254695
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Mr. Darcy's Obsession written by Abigail Reynolds and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The more he tries to stay away from her, the more his obsession grows... What if...Elizabeth Bennet was more unsuitable for Mr. Darcy than ever... Mr. Darcy is determined to find a more suitable bride. But then he learns that Elizabeth is living in London in reduced circumstances, after her father's death robs her of her family home... What if...Mr. Darcy can't Help himself from see king her out... He just wants to make sure she's alright. But once he's seen her, he feels compelled to talk to her, and from there he's unable to fight the overwhelming desire to be near her, or the ever-growing mutual attraction that is between them... What if...Mr. Darcy's intentions were shockingly dishonorable... "[Reynolds] has creatively blended a classic love story with a saucy romance novel." —Austenprose "Developed so well that it made the age-old storyline new and fresh...Her writing gripped my attention and did not let go."—The Romance Studio "The style and wit of Ms. Austen are compellingly replicated...spellbinding. Kudos to Ms. Reynolds!" —A Reader's Respite

A Poetics of Postmodernism and Neomodernism

Author : M. Latham
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137490802
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book A Poetics of Postmodernism and Neomodernism written by M. Latham and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-05-27 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new book examines how a range of authors today perpetuate Virginia Woolf's literary legacy, by creating new forms adapted to their new ages and audiences. Addressing questions about the current penchant for refashioning our canon in order to update, this book will be valuable reading for both students and scholars of Woolf.

A Year in Earrings

Author :
Publisher : Kalmbach Publishing, Co.
ISBN 13 : 0871162962
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book A Year in Earrings written by and published by Kalmbach Publishing, Co.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From the publisher of BeadStyle magazine."--Cover.

Land of Love and Drowning

Author : Tiphanie Yanique
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1594633819
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (946 download)

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Download or read book Land of Love and Drowning written by Tiphanie Yanique and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critically acclaimed debut from an award-winning writer—an epic family saga set against the magic and the rhythms of the Virgin Islands. In the early 1900s, the Virgin Islands are transferred from Danish to American rule, and an important ship sinks into the Caribbean Sea. Orphaned by the shipwreck are two sisters and their half brother, now faced with an uncertain identity and future. Each of them is unusually beautiful, and each is in possession of a particular magic that will either sink or save them. Chronicling three generations of an island family from 1916 to the 1970s, Land of Love and Drowning is a novel of love and magic, set against the emergence of Saint Thomas into the modern world. Uniquely imagined, with echoes of Toni Morrison, Gabriel García Márquez, and the author’s own Caribbean family history, the story is told in a language and rhythm that evoke an entire world and way of life and love. Following the Bradshaw family through sixty years of fathers and daughters, mothers and sons, love affairs, curses, magical gifts, loyalties, births, deaths, and triumphs, Land of Love and Drowning is a gorgeous, vibrant debut by an exciting, prizewinning young writer.

The Musical Novel

Author : Emily Petermann
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1571135928
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book The Musical Novel written by Emily Petermann and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2014 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes two groups of "musical novels" -- novels that take music as a model for their construction -- including jazz novels by Toni Morrison and Michael Ondaatje, and novels based on Bach's Goldberg Variations. What is a "musical novel"? This book defines the genre as musical not primarily in terms of its content, but in its form. The musical novel crosses medial boundaries, aspiring to techniques, structures, and impressions similar tothose of music. It takes music as a model for its own construction, borrowing techniques and forms that range from immediately perceptible, essential aspects of music (rhythm, timbre, the simultaneity of multiple voices) to microstructural (jazz riffs, call and response, leitmotifs) and macrostructural elements (themes and variations, symphonies, albums). The musical novel also evokes the performance context by imitating elements of spontaneity that characterize improvised jazz or audience interaction. The Musical Novel builds upon theories of intermediality and semiotics to analyze the musical structures, forms, and techniques in two groups of musical novels, which serve as case studies. The first group imitates an entire musical genre and consists of jazz novels by Toni Morrison, Albert Murray, Xam Wilson Cartiér, Stanley Crouch, Jack Fuller, Michael Ondaatje, and Christian Gailly. The secondgroup of novels, by Richard Powers, Gabriel Josipovici, Rachel Cusk, Nancy Huston, and Thomas Bernhard, imitates a single piece of music, J. S. Bach's Goldberg Variations. Emily Petermann is Assistant Professor of American Literature at the University of Konstanz.

Write in Tune: Contemporary Music in Fiction

Author : Erich Hertz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1623561450
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (235 download)

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Download or read book Write in Tune: Contemporary Music in Fiction written by Erich Hertz and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary popular music provides the soundtrack for a host of recent novels, but little critical attention has been paid to the intersection of these important art forms. Write in Tune addresses this gap by offering the first full-length study of the relationship between recent music and fiction. With essays from an array of international scholars, the collection focuses on how writers weave rock, punk, and jazz into their narratives, both to develop characters and themes and to investigate various fan and celebrity cultures surrounding contemporary music. Write in Tune covers major writers from America and England, including Don DeLillo, Jonathan Franzen, Zadie Smith, and Jim Crace. But it also explores how popular music culture is reflected in postcolonial, Latino, and Australian fiction. Ultimately, the book brings critical awareness to the power of music in shaping contemporary culture, and offers new perspectives on central issues of gender, race, and national identity.