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A Life's Work by Rachel Cusk
$28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
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
$21.99 NZD
Category: Parenting
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
Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation by Rachel Cusk
$36.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
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
$24.99 NZD
$28.00 (10% off)
Category: Biography & Memoir
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
Arlington Park by Rachel Cusk
$28.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good - near fine
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
$22.99 NZD
$28.00 (17% off)
Category: No Category
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
$35.00 NZD
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
Coventry by Rachel Cusk
$32.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
After the publication of Outline, Transit and Kudos - in which Rachel Cusk redrew the boundaries of fiction - this writer of uncommon brilliance returns with a series of essays that offers new insights on the themes at the heart of her life's work. Encompassing memoir and cultural and literary criticism ...Show more
Coventry by Rachel Cusk
$24.99 NZD
$28.00 (10% off)
Category: Fiction
After the publication of Outline, Transit and Kudos - in which Rachel Cusk redrew the boundaries of fiction - this writer of uncommon brilliance returns with a series of essays that offers new insights on the themes at the heart of her life's work. Encompassing memoir and cultural and literary criticism ...Show more
In the Fold by Rachel Cusk
$28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
When eighteen-year-old Michael visits the Hanbury's remote family home he is captivated by their bohemian lifestyle. Years later, when he marries the strong-willed, beautiful Rebecca, he is secretly hoping to create his own version of that free-thinking family, but after the birth of their first child, ...Show more
Kudos (Outline Trilogy #3) by Rachel Cusk
$19.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Outline
Rachel Cusk, the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of Outline and Transit, completes the transcendent literary trilogy with Kudos, a novel of unsettling power. A woman writer visits a Europe in flux, where questions of personal and political identity are rising to the surface and the trauma ...Show more
Outline: A Novel by Rachel Cusk
$0.25 NZD
$25.00 (99% off)
Category: No Category | Series: Outline Trilogy | Reading Level: very good
Outline is a novel in ten conversations. Spare and lucid, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing over an oppressively hot summer in Athens. She leads her student in storytelling exercises. She meets other writers for dinner. She goes swimming in the Ionian Sea with her seatmate from ...Show more