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A Life's Work by Rachel Cusk
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
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
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
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
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Arlington Park is an ordinary English suburb. Over the course of a single day, the novel moves from one household to another, revealing its characters: Juliet, enraged at the victory of men over women in family life; Amanda, warding off thoughts of death with obsessive housework; Solly, about to give bi ...Show more
Arlington Park by Rachel Cusk
23.95 AUD
Category: 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
Coventry by Rachel Cusk
32.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
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
Coventry by Rachel Cusk
22.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
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
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
When eighteen-year-old Michael visits the Hanbury's remote family home he is captivated by their bohemian lifestyle. Years later, when he marries the strong-willed, beautiful Rebecca, he is secretly hoping to create his own version of that free-thinking family, but after the birth of their first child, ...Show more
Kudos by Rachel Cusk
29.99 AUD
Category: 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
24.99 AUD
Category: 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
Louise Bourgeois: The Woven Child by Rachel Cusk (Text by); Julienne Lorz (Text by); Joseph Logan (Designed by); Lynne Cooke (Text by)
90.00 AUD
Category: Art
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the fabric works from the last two decades in the career of legendary artist Louise Bourgeois. "I've always had a fascination with the needle," she said, "the magic power of the needle. The needle is used to repair damage. It's a claim to forgiveness." This ...Show more
Marble in Metamorphosis by Rachel Cusk and Chris Kontos
48.00 AUD
Category: Art
Marble in Metamorphosis contemplates the physical and cultural life of marble. It explores the ethics, politics and symbolism of its use and deliberates over the spirit of the material and why some cultures so revere and desire it. In reflecting on the deep relationship between marble and human culture, ...Show more
Outline: A Novel by Rachel Cusk
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Outline Trilogy | Reading Level: very good
Outline is a novel in ten conversations. Spare and lucid, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing over an oppressively hot summer in Athens. She leads her student in storytelling exercises. She meets other writers for dinner. She goes swimming in the Ionian Sea with her seatmate from ...Show more