6 audio discs (7 1/2 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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CD audio
Note
Compact discs.
Performer
Read by Antonia Beamish.
Summary
Rachel Cusk presents selections from her nonfiction writings that offer new insights on the themes at the heart of her fiction and forge a startling critical voice on some of our most urgent personal, social, and artistic questions.
Contents
I: Coventry. Driving as metaphor -- Coventry -- On rudeness -- Making home -- Lions on leashes -- Aftermath -- II: A tragic pastime. Louise Bourgeois: suites on fabric -- I am nothing, I am everything -- Shakespeare's sisters -- How to get there -- III: Classics and bestsellers. Edith Wharton: The age of innocence -- D. H. Lawrence: The rainbow -- On Françoise Sagan -- Olivia Manning: The Balkan trilogy -- Eat, pray, love -- Never let me go -- On Natalia Ginzburg.