‘I liked the idea of the book being somehow spoken, as to a friend’
Rachel Cusk
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Rachel Cusk is a Canadian novelist and writer. Her 2005 novel In the Fold was longlisted for the Booker Prize
She is also the author of the Outline trilogy, the memoirs A Life’s Work and Aftermath, and several other works of fiction and non-fiction. She is a Guggenheim fellow and lives in Paris.
I felt better able to express my ideas about femininity and perception as ideas about painting
All nominated books
A man’s romantic notions of country life disintegrate as he discerns the deceptions at the heart the illusion, in Rachel Cusk’s journey of discovery
Can art both save and destroy us? Rachel Cusk offers a deep affirmation of the human soul, while grappling with its darkest demons
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Q&As with the 2021 nominated authors
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