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Outline

by Rachel Cusk

Hardcover, 256 pages, Farrar Straus & Giroux, List Price: $26 |

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An innovative novel captures 10 conversations involving the narrator, a novelist teaching a course in creative writing during one oppressively hot summer in Athens.

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In 'Outline,' A Series Of Conversations Are Autobiographies In Miniature

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January 29, 2015 • Rachel Cusk's novel centers on a writer and mother recovering from divorce who teaches a summer course in Athens, Greece. The narrator has 10 conversations filled with holes, lies and self-deceptions.

In 'Outline,' A Series Of Conversations Are Autobiographies In Miniature

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There's Nothing Sketchy About This 'Outline'

January 13, 2015 • Reviewer Heller McAlpin says Rachel Cusk, known for her lacerating memoirs, begins to bring her fiction and nonfiction closer together in Outline, an "impressive deepening" of her work.

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After Silence, An 'Outline' Of A Life In Fragments

January 11, 2015 • Rachel Cusk's new novel Outline reflects the fragmentation of her own life in the story of a writer coming to terms with her dissolving marriage while on a summer teaching trip to Greece.

After Silence, An 'Outline' Of A Life In Fragments

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