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A Life's Work by Rachel Cusk
29.99 NZD
Category: Parenting
When first published in 2001, it divided female critics and readers. One famous columnist wrote a piece demanding that Cusk's children were taken into care, that she was unfit to look after them. Oprah Winfrey invited her on the show to defend herself and the book as protests grew about the its honest, ...Show more
A Life's Work by Rachel Cusk
21.95 NZD
Category: Fiction
In this work, novelist Rachel Cusk tells the story of motherhood - an old story set in a new era of sexual equality. Her year of modern motherhood is many stories: a farewell to freedom, sleep and time; a lesson in humility and hard work; and a meditation on madness and mortality. Paperback
Arlington Park by Rachel Cusk
35.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Arlington Park, a modern-day English suburb, is a place devoted to the profitable ordinariness of life. Amidst its leafy avenues and comfortable houses, its residents live out the dubious accomplishments of civilisation: material prosperity, personal freedom, and moral indifference. For all that, Arling ...Show more
Arlington Park by Rachel Cusk
27.99 NZD
28.99 (3% off)
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good - near fine
Juliet is enraged at the victory of men over women in family life. Amanda is warding off thoughts of death with obsessive housework. Solly is confronting her own buried femininity in the person of her Italian lodger. Maisie despairs at the inevitability with which beauty is destroyed. And Christine's tr ...Show more
Bradshaw Variations, the by Rachel Cusk
35.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
In becoming a stay-at-homedad, Thomas Bradshaw has found that the structure of his daily piano practice brings nourishment to these diffi cult middle years. Why has he swapped roles with Tonie Swann, his intense, intellectual wife who has accepted a demanding full-time university job? How can this be go ...Show more
In the Fold by Rachel Cusk
24.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Michael first met the Hanburys of Egypt Hill when he was a young student. He was intrigued and delighted by their bohemian lifestyle and bravado. Twelve years later, married with a young son, Michael is invited back to the house and jumps at the chance of escaping his increasingly turbulent domestic sit ...Show more
Kudos by Rachel Cusk
32.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE A woman on a plane listens to the stranger in the seat next to hers telling her the story of his life: his work, his marriage, and the harrowing night he has just spent burying the family dog. That woman is Faye, who is now on her way to Europe to promote the book sh ...Show more
Kudos (Outline Trilogy #3) by Rachel Cusk
22.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Outline
Rachel Cusk, the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of Outline and Transit, completes the transcendent literary trilogy with Kudos, a novel of unsettling power. A woman writer visits a Europe in flux, where questions of personal and political identity are rising to the surface and the trauma ...Show more
Outline: A Novel (Outline trilogy #1) by Rachel Cusk
22.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Outline Trilogy | Reading Level: very good
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 ...Show more
Second Place by Rachel Cusk
32.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
From the author of the Outline trilogy, a fable of human destiny and decline, enacted in a closed system of intimate, fractured relationships. A woman invites a famed artist to visit the remote coastal region where she lives, in the belief that his vision will penetrate the mystery of her life and lands ...Show more
The Bradshaw Variations by Rachel Cusk
59.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Since leaving his job to look after Alexa, his eight year old daughter, Thomas Bradshaw has found the structure of his daily piano practice and the study of musical form brings a nourishment to these difficult middle years. His pursuit of a more artistic way of life shocks and irritates his parents and ...Show more
The Last Supper : A Summer in Italy by Rachel Cusk
29.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
When prize-winning author Rachel Cusk decides to travel to Italy for a summer with her husband and two young children she has no idea of the trials and wonders that lie in store. Their journey leads them to both the expected - the Piero della Francesca trail and queues at the Vatican - and the surprisin ...Show more