Transit - Couverture rigide

Cusk, Rachel

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0374278628 ISBN 13 : 9780374278625

Editeur : Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2017

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

“Beautiful.” (Toronto Star)

“Cusk is a master of sparse, exquisite prose. . . . [Outline] successfully conveys all of her admirable honesty in the safe harbour of fiction, and somehow delivers more human truths than most memoirs ever could.” (The Globe and Mail)

“A stellar accomplishment.” (The Guardian)

“Quietly radical. . . . Ingenious.” (Vogue)

“One of the most daringly original and entertaining pieces of fiction I’ve ever read.” (The Observer)

“Mesmerizing.” (The New Yorker)

“Brave and uncompromising in its literary ambition, Transit is a work of cut-glass brilliance that quietly insists on the reader’s thoughtful attention. One beautifully crafted sentence follows another.” (Rebecca Abrams, The Financial Times)

“[Transit’s] themes of transience and dislocation are contiguous with a broader conversation about the fluidity of identity resulting, in part, from an increasingly—and contentiously (see Brexit, Trump, etc.)—borderless planet.” (The Globe and Mail)

“One of our most astute writers. . . . Cusk is very good at creating characters who seem fresh; they blossom under her pen. . . . This is part of what makes [Transit] so effective and smart.” (Quill & Quire (starred review))

“Cusk is now working on a level that makes it very surprising that she has not yet won a major literary prize. Her technical originality is equaled by the compelling nature of her subject matter, and Transit is a very fine novel indeed.” (The Observer)

Quatrième de couverture

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 endeavours 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.

Filtered through the impersonal gaze of its keenly intelligent protagonist, Transit sees Rachel Cusk delve deeper into the themes first raised in her critically acclaimed novel Outline, and offers up a penetrating and moving reflection on childhood and fate, the value of suffering, the moral problems of personal responsibility, and the mystery of change. In this precise, short, and yet epic novel, Cusk manages to describe the most elemental experiences, the liminal qualities of life, through a narrative near-silence that draws language towards it. She captures with unsettling restraint and honesty the longing to both inhabit and flee one’s life and the wrenching ambivalence animating our desire to feel real.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0374278628
• ISBN 13: 9780374278625
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 260
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible