A Life's Work
Author(s): Rachel Cusk
When it was first published, Cusk's memoir of new motherhood shocked readers and critics alike- it was called 'as compulsive as a thriller' by the Observer, 'an incitement to riot' by Esther Freud and 'career suicide' by the New York Times. Cusk was accused of self-obsession, of hating her child and of having post-natal depression, just as she was being celebrated by others for having the courage to speak the truth about being a mother. A modern classic and the antithesis of a parenting manual, in A Life's Work Cusk writes with unflinching honesty and wry humour about the sleepless nights, the loneliness, the moments of despair but also of fierce heart-stopping love.
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Rachel Cusk was born in Canada in 1967 and moved to the United Kingdom in 1974. She is the author of nine novels and three works of non-fiction. She has won and been shortlisted for numerous prizes- her most recent novel, Outline (2014), was shortlisted for the Folio Prize, the Goldsmiths Prize, the Baileys Prize, the Giller Prize and the Canadian Governor General's Award. It was also picked by the New York Times as one of the top ten books of the year. In 2003, Rachel Cusk was nominated by Granta magazine as one of 20 'Best of Young British Novelists'. In 2015 her version of Euripides' 'Medea' was put on at the Almeida Theatre with Rupert Goold directing and was shortlisted for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.
General Fields
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- : Vintage Publishing
- : Vintage
- : 01 January 2018
- : 198mm X 129mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 October 2017
- : 18 June 2020
- : books
Special Fields
- : Rachel Cusk
- : Paperback
- : Jan-18
- : en
- : 240