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Druhý diel trilógie, ktorá sa začala románom Obrys, jedna z 10 najlepších kníh roka podľa denníka New York Times. Faye sa po rozvode presťahuje aj s malými synmi do Londýna. Rozpad sa stáva katalyzátorom viacerých zmien a posunov – osobných, morálnych, umeleckých a praktických –, kým sa snaží vytvoriť novú realitu pre seba a svoje deti. V meste sa musí konfrontovať s aspektami života, ktorým sa doposiaľ snažila vyhýbať, a zvažuje otázky zraniteľnosti a moci, skazy a obnovy. Inteligentná rozprávačka sa ponára hlbšie do tém načrtnutých v románe Obrys a poskytuje prenikavé a dojemné úvahy o detstve a osude, hodnote utrpenia, morálnych problémoch osobnej zodpovednosti a záhady, ktorou je zmena.

Obrys je román v desiatich rozhovoroch. Ide o príbeh spisovateľky, ktorá počas dusivého horúceho leta v Aténach učí na kurze kreatívneho písania. Prednáša o technikách rozprávania, počúva príbehy svojich študentov a študentiek. Po večeroch sa stretáva s inými hosťujúcimi spisovateľmi a spisovateľkami. Pláva v Iónskom mori s mužom, ktorého stretla v lietadle. Ľudia v jej okolí obšírne rozprávajú o sebe: o svojich predstavách, úzkostiach, teóriách, výčitkách a túžbach. Prostredníctvom ich priznaní sa pred nami rysuje portrét rozprávačky, ženy, ktorá sa učí zmieriť sa s veľkou stratou.

Set over the course of a single rainy day, we follow Juliet, enraged at the victory of men over women in family life; Amanda, warding off thoughts of death with obsessive housework; Solly, who confronts her own buried femininity in the person of her Italian lodger; Maisie, despairing at the inevitability with which beauty is destroyed; and Christine, whose troubled, hilarious spirit presides over Arlington Park and the way of life it represents. Rachel Cusk's sixth novel is her best yet. Full of compassion and wit, she writes about her characters' domestic lives, their private thoughts and fears with great intelligence and insight.

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book, this memoir by multi-award-winning author Rachel Cusk explores the transformative experience of motherhood. Selected as one of the 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years by the New York Times, it delves into the contradictions of motherhood, portraying it as both commonplace and unimaginable, prosaic yet mysterious. Cusk reflects on the dualities of this role—banal yet bizarre, compelling yet tedious—capturing the essence of becoming a mother as a solitary performance in a drama of human existence. Her narrative reveals how an ordinary life morphs into a tale of profound passions, love, servitude, confinement, and compassion. With humor and insight, Cusk recounts a year of modern motherhood, weaving together stories of lost freedom, lessons in humility, and the roots of love. This memoir serves as a meditation on madness and mortality, offering a sentimental education in the realities of parenting—babies, books, toddler groups, and the challenges of never being alone. The New York Times Book Review praises it as "funny and smart," likening it to a war diary, describing it as wholly original and unabashedly true.

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Stella Benson answers a classified ad for an au pair, arriving in a tiny Sussex village that's home to a family that is slightly larger than life. Her hopes for the Maddens may be high, but her station among them is low and remote. It soon becomes clear that Stella falls short of even the meager specifications her new role requires, most visibly in the area of "aptitude for the country life." But what drove her to leave her home, job, and life in London in the first place? Why has she severed all ties with her parents? Why is she so reluctant to discuss her past? And who, exactly, is Edward? The Country Life is a rich and subtle novel about embarrassment, awkwardness, and being alone; about families, or the lack of them; and about love in some peculiar guises. Rachel Cusk's widely praised novel is a captivating tale of one young woman's adventures in self-discovery.

"Originally published in 2009 by Faber and Faber Limited, Great Britain. Published in the United States in 2010 By Farrar, Strauss and Giroux"--Title page verso.

Cusk ist besser als Knausgård. Berliner Zeitung

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.

In her most personal and relevant book to date, Cusk explores divorce's tremendous impact on the lives of women. This unflinching chronicle of Cusk's own recent separation and the upheaval that followed is also a vivid study of divorce's complex place in our society.

A woman invites a famed artist to visit the remote coastal region where she lives, in the belief that his vision will penetrate the mystery of her life and landscape. Over the course of one hot summer, his provocative presence provides the frame for a study of female fate and male privilege, of the geometries of human relationships, and of the struggle to live morally between our internal and external worlds

Ralph Loman's unexceptional life is anchored in regret by a past from which he cannot free himself. One of corporate London's transient typists crosses Ralph's path and her beauty ignites a brief blaze of excitement. When he tries to extricate himself, he is bound in chains of consequence.

Cusk escapes dreary England for Tuscany, to relish the landscape, the weather, the food and, most of all, the art.

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 collection of pieces of memoir by contemporary international writers. Edited by the author of 'IF THE SPIRIT MOVES YOU'.

Michael first met the Hanburys of Egypt Hill when he was a young student. Twelve years later, married with a young son, Michael is invited back to the house and jumps at the chance of escaping his increasingly turbulent domestic situation.

A young pregnant mother wrestles with an utterly changed life; a new father searches for a sign of the man he used to be; a daughter yearns for a lost childhood; and a mother reaches out in bewilderment to a child she can't fully understand. A rare novel that illuminates "the bustling concourses of life" without sacrificing emotional depth and complexity, The Lucky Ones confirms Rachel Cusk's place among our most incisive writers.

Living with her two best friends in London, Agnes feels that life and love seem to go on without her. But then she discovers 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. Winner of the Whitbread Prize for Best First Novel.

La experiencia de la maternidad es una experiencia en contradicción. Es un lugar común y es imposible de imaginar. Es prosaico y es misterioso. Es a la vez banal, extraño, convincente, tedioso, cómico y catastrófico. Ser madre es convertirse en el actor principal de un drama de la existencia humana al que nadie se presenta. Es el proceso por el cual una vida ordinaria se transforma invisible en una historia de extrañas y poderosas pasiones, de amor y servidumbre, de encierro. y compasión". "En un libro que es conmovedor, hilarante, provocativo y profundamente perspicaz, la novelista Rachel Cusk intenta contar algo de una vieja historia ambientada en una nueva era de igualdad sexual. El relato de Cusk sobre un año de maternidad moderna se convierte en muchas historias: una despedida de la libertad, el sueño y el tiempo; una lección de humildad y trabajo duro; un viaje a las raíces del amor; una meditación sobre la locura y la mortalidad; y sobre todo, una educación sentimental en bebés, libros, grupos de niños pequeños, malos consejos, llanto, lactancia y nunca estar solo