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2007., Farrar, Straus and Giroux Call No: Fic Cus Edition: 1st American ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryClick here to watch Click here to view
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By Allnutt, Gillian, 1949- Bell, Laura, 1954- Butalia, Urvashi Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan), 1936- Cusk, Rachel, 1967- Danticat, Edwidge, 1969- Davis, Lydia, 1947- Erdrich, Louise Galloway, Janice Gregerson, Linda Hill, Selima, 1945- Kuzmanovic, Tomislav Moorehead, Caroline Obreht, Téa Otsuka, Julie, 1962- Prose, Francine, 1947- Simpson, Helen, 1957- Welty, Eudora2011., Granta Call No: 818.54 G763f Edition: Issue 115: spring 2011. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Women in the twenty-first century from Kent to Accra still live in a world in which the balance of power remains tipped towards men. This bold, political issue of Granta will explore this dynamic from a wide variety of literary genres and perspectives. In "You Speak to Save Your Life," A. L. Kennedy investigates the surprising ways in which the human voice can be trapped and unlocked. Sara Wheeler retraces the American travels of Fanny Trollope, who uprooted to Ohio from England at the age of forty-eight and began an improbable second life. Julie Otsuka contributes a powerful piece of fiction about mail-order brides from Japan arriving in the US, and with "The Sex Lives of African Girls," the issue will introduce an astonishing new voice, Taiye Selasi, who spins a haunting story about the way adult sexuality can be imposed upon the young. With award-winning reportage, memoir and fiction, over the years Granta has illuminated the most complex issues of modern life through the refractory light of literature. The Dirty Word will continue this tradition by addressing a theme many readers know has never lost its urgency.
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2022., 07:55:44, Blackstone Publishing Edition: Unabridged. Click to access digital title. Sample Summary Note: 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.
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2002, c2001., Picador USA Call No: 306.874 C985L Edition: 1st U.S. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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[2015]., Farrar, Straus and Giroux Call No: Fic Cus Edition: 1st American ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "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"--
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By Cusk, Rachel2021., Adult, HarperCollins Call No: Fic Cus Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In 'Second Place', M, a mother on the brink of rebellion, invites a painter to stay with her and her family at their modest cottage. When historical catastrophe upends daily life, the strange group is resigned to the indoors, and fissures soon begin to form. The painters quietly demonic presence wreaks havoc with M, plunging her into existential disarray. As secrets, alliances and private desires come to light, she is forced to choose between her deepest impulses: to comply or to rebel completely. Rachel Cusk lives in Toronto, ON.
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-- 2nd place.2021., HarperCollins Publishers Inc. Edition: First edition. Connect to this eAudiobook title Summary Note: A haunting fable of art, family, and fate from the author of the Outline trilogy.A woman invites a famous artist to use her guesthouse in the remote coastal landscape where she lives with her family. Powerfully drawn to his paintings, she believes his vision might penetrate the mystery at the center of her life. But as a long, dry summer sets in, his provocative presence itself becomes an enigma--and disrupts the calm of her secluded household.Second Place, Rachel Cusk's electrifying new novel, is a study of female fate and male privilege, the geometries of human relationships, and the moral questions that animate our lives. It reminds us of art's capacity to uplift--and to destroy.
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c2017., Adult, HarperCollins Publisher Ltd Call No: Fic Cus Edition: 1st Canadian ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "In the wake of family collapse, a writer moves to London with her two young sons. 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."--From publisher.
