Told in a series of conversations with people Faye encounters during the week - a Greek bachelor she meets on the airplane and with whom she develops an awkward friendship an Irish writer her students Greek writers who form a circle of acquaintances and a playwright recovering from a violent mugging - the novel lacks a traditional plot. Recently divorced and a single mother, she has taken the job out of financial necessity. Cusk, whose previous novels have been well-received and traditional, breaks new and refreshing ground with “Outline.’’įaye, the book’s narrator, is a British novelist teaching a week-long summer writing workshop in Athens.
The novel suggests that far from being benign, this development represents the opposite of art and love. The book also offers a bracing indictment of the sentimentality that surrounds the making of art and artistic identity. ‘Outline,” the remarkably original novel by Rachel Cusk, tells the story of a writer, numbed by heartbreak, who rediscovers the meaning of art and love through her conversations with others.
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