Outline : A Novel

By
Rachel Cusk
FABER & FABER
Outline is 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.

Outline is the first book in a short and yet epic cycle - a masterful
trilogy which will be remembered as one of the most significant
achievements of our times.

'Outline succeeds powerfully. Among other things, it gets a great

variety of human beings down on the page with both immediacy and
depth; an elemental pleasure that makes the book as gripping to read
as a thriller... A stellar accomplishment.' James Lasdun, Guardian

FABER & FABER

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