Outline - Couverture souple

CUSK, RACHEL

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1250081548 ISBN 13 : 9781250081544

Editeur : Picador, 2016

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION

A woman arrives in Athens in the height of summer to teach a writing course. Once there, she becomes the audience to a chain of narratives as the people she meets tell her one after another the stories of their lives.

Beginning with the neighbouring passenger on the flight out and his tales of fast boats and failed marriages, the storytellers talk of their loves and ambitions and pains, their anxieties, their perceptions and daily lives. In the stifling heat and noise of the city the sequence of voices begins to weave a complex human tapestry: the experience of loss, the nature of family life, the difficulty of intimacy and the mystery of creativity itself.

LONGLISTED FOR THE IMPAC PRIZE

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Outline is a novel in ten conversations. Spare and lucid, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing during an oppressively hot summer in Athens. She leads her students in storytelling exercises. She meets other visiting writers for dinner. She goes swimming with an elderly Greek bachelor. 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 is Rachel Cusk’s finest work yet, and one of the most startling, brilliant and original novels of recent years.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Picador
• Date d'édition: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1250081548
• ISBN 13: 9781250081544
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256