Outline

6 books in series
4 out of 5 stars 293 ratings

Outline Publisher's summary

A luminous, powerful novel that establishes Rachel Cusk as one of the finest writers in the English language.

A man and a woman are seated next to each other on a plane. They get to talking - about their destination, their careers, their families. Grievances are aired, family tragedies discussed, marriages and divorces analyzed. An intimacy is established as two strangers contrast their own fictions about their lives.

Outline is a novel in 10 conversations. Spare and stark, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing during one oppressively hot summer in Athens. She leads her students in storytelling exercises. She meets other visiting writers for dinner and discourse. 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.

Outline takes a hard look at the things that are hardest to speak about. It brilliantly captures conversations, investigates people’s motivations for storytelling, and questions their ability to ever do so honestly or unselfishly. In doing so it bares the deepest impulses behind the craft of fiction writing. This is Rachel Cusk’s finest work yet and one of the most startling, brilliant, original novels of recent years.

©2014 by Rachel Cusk (P)2014 by W. F. Howes, Ltd.
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  • Book 1

    • The Outline Trilogy, Book 1
    • By: Rachel Cusk
    • Narrated by: Kate Lock
    • Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 56 ratings

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  • Book 3

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    • By: Rachel Cusk
    • Narrated by: Kate Reading
    • Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 07-24-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 92 ratings

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