Outline
Outline 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 dinners and discourse. 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"
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Subject |
English teachers > Fiction. Athens (Greece) > Fiction. |
Genre |
Psychological fiction. Fiction. |
- ISBN: 0374228345
- ISBN: 9780374228347
- ISBN: 9781443447102
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Physical Description
print
249 pages - Edition First American edition.
- Publisher New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.
- Copyright ©2014
Content descriptions
General Note: | Shortlisted for the 2015 Scotiabank Giller Prize Originally published: London : Faber and Faber, 2014. |
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 29.99 |
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Outline : A Novel
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Summary
Outline : A Novel
Literary Hub, Best Books of the Decade , A Finalist for the Folio Prize, the Goldsmiths Prize, the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction One of The New York Times' Top Ten Books of the Year Named a A New York Times Book Review Notable Book and a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker , Vogue, NPR, The Guardian , The Independent , Glamour, and The Globe and Mail Chosen as one of fifteen remarkable books by women that are shaping the way we read and write in the 21st century by the book critics of The New York Times Rachel Cusk's 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 students in storytelling exercises. She meets other visiting writers for dinner. She goes swimming in the Ionian Sea with her neighbor from the plane. 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.