{"product_id":"9780571346769-outline","title":"Outline","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'Cusk has glimpsed the central truth of modern life.' Patricia Lockwood\u003cbr\u003eA novel about writing and talking, self-effacement and self-expression, about the desire to create and the human art of self-portraiture in which that desire finds its universal form.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e** Pre-order \u003ci\u003eLife of M\u003c\/i\u003e, the new novel from Rachel Cusk, now **\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e#14 in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003e'100 Best Books of the 21st Century'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eONE OF THE \u003ci\u003eSUNDAY TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e' '25 BEST NOVELS OF THE 21ST CENTURY'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE AND THE FOLIO PRIZE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE IMPAC PRIZE\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A work of stunning beauty, deep insight and great originality.' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMonica Ali, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'One of the most daringly original and entertaining pieces of fiction I've ever read.' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A perfect synthesis of form and content.' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDeborah Levy\u003cbr\u003e'Full of baking light and quiet melancholy and bodies brushing past one another in the heat.' \u003cbr\u003eLeslie Jamison\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOutline \u003c\/i\u003eis 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 the place. 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 great a great loss.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31412021395553,"sku":"9780571346769","price":7.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_36339429.jpg?v=1759409667","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780571346769-outline","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}