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A Life's Work by Rachel Cusk
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
When first published in 2001, it divided female critics and readers. One famous columnist wrote a piece demanding that Cusk's children were taken into care, that she was unfit to look after them. Oprah Winfrey invited her on the show to defend herself and the book as protests grew about the its honest, ...Show more
A Life's Work by Rachel Cusk
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
When first published in 2001, it divided female critics and readers. One famous columnist wrote a piece demanding that Cusk's children were taken into care, that was she was unfit to look after them. Oprah Winfrey invited her on the show to defend herself and the book as protests grew about the its hone ...Show more
Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation by Rachel Cusk
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
Using her own life as a starting point, Rachel looks at the issues that arise for a woman in the years after she has lived the defining experiences of feminity. She writes about marriage, separation, motherhood, work, money, domesticity and love. Cusk considers the kinds of generational knowledge the co ...Show more
Aftermath - On Marriage and Separation by Rachel Cusk
$27.99 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
In 2003, Rachel Cusk published A Life's Work, her provocative and startlingly funny memoir of the cataclysm of motherhood, and launched debates that continue to this day. Now, in her most relevant work yet, Cusk offers an intimate exploration of divorce and its tremendous impact on the lives of women--a ...Show more
Arlington Park by Rachel Cusk
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good - near fine
Juliet is enraged at the victory of men over women in family life. Amanda is warding off thoughts of death with obsessive housework. Solly is confronting her own buried femininity in the person of her Italian lodger. Maisie despairs at the inevitability with which beauty is destroyed. And Christine's tr ...Show more
Arlington Park by Rachel Cusk
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Arlington Park, a modern-day English suburb, is a place devoted to the profitable ordinariness of life. Amidst its leafy avenues and comfortable houses, its residents live out the dubious accomplishments of civilisation: material prosperity, personal freedom, and moral indifference. For all that, Arling ...Show more
Bradshaw Variations, the by Rachel Cusk
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
In becoming a stay-at-homedad, Thomas Bradshaw has found that the structure of his daily piano practice brings nourishment to these diffi cult middle years. Why has he swapped roles with Tonie Swann, his intense, intellectual wife who has accepted a demanding full-time university job? How can this be go ...Show more
Coventry by Rachel Cusk
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
After the publication of Outline, Transit and Kudos - in which Rachel Cusk redrew the boundaries of fiction - this writer of uncommon brilliance returns with a series of essays that offers new insights on the themes at the heart of her life's work. Encompassing memoir and cultural and literary criticism ...Show more
In the Fold by Rachel Cusk
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
A story of deception, belonging and a marriage in crisis from one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists. The Hanburys of Egypt Hill are the last word in bohemian living - or so they like to think. Their parties are famous, their relationships confusing, their bravado immense. To Michael, a you ...Show more
In the Fold by Rachel Cusk
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Michael first met the Hanburys of Egypt Hill when he was a young student. He was intrigued and delighted by their bohemian lifestyle and bravado. Twelve years later, married with a young son, Michael is invited back to the house and jumps at the chance of escaping his increasingly turbulent domestic sit ...Show more
Kudos by Rachel Cusk
$33.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE A woman on a plane listens to the stranger in the seat next to hers telling her the story of his life: his work, his marriage, and the harrowing night he has just spent burying the family dog. That woman is Faye, who is now on her way to Europe to promote the book sh ...Show more
Kudos (Outline Trilogy #3) by Rachel Cusk
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Outline
Rachel Cusk, the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of Outline and Transit, completes the transcendent literary trilogy with Kudos, a novel of unsettling power. A woman writer visits a Europe in flux, where questions of personal and political identity are rising to the surface and the trauma ...Show more