Coventry : essays / Rachel Cusk.

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ISBN:

9780374126773

Personal Author:

Cusk, Rachel, 1967-

Edition:

First American edition.

Publication Information:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.

Physical Description:

248 pages ; 22 cm

Contents:

I: Coventry. Driving as metaphor -- Coventry -- On rudeness -- Making home -- Lions on leashes -- Aftermath -- II: A tragic pastime. Louise Bourgeois: suites on fabric -- I am nothing, I am everything -- Shakespeare's sisters -- How to get there -- III: Classics and bestsellers. Edith Wharton: The age of innocence -- D. H. Lawrence: The rainbow -- On Françoise Sagan -- Olivia Manning: The Balkan trilogy -- Eat, pray, love -- Never let me go -- On Natalia Ginzburg.

Summary:

The author's first collection of essays about motherhood, marriage, feminism, and art 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.

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OCLC Number:

on1053611132

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