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The Lucky Ones
"A small masterwork, a bright gem that illuminates the extent of Rachel Cusk's considerable abilities." -- Salon
"So sharply written I forgot where I was as I was reading it . . . touches greatness in its psychological incisiveness . . . . Cusk has brought her writing to a new level." --New York Times Book Review
Demonstrating a rare gift for illuminating "the bustling concourses of life" without sacrificing emotional depth and complexity, this rare and stunning novel confirms Rachel Cusk's place among our most incisive and masterful writers.
The Lucky Ones is a profound evocation of family and the magnetic bonds that can attract or repel. The five people whose lives converge here are also haunted by family: the longing for love, the struggle to connect. Here, a young pregnant mother wrestles with an utterly changed life; a new father sifts for a sign of the man he used to be; a daughter searches for a lost childhood; and a mother reaches out in bewilderment to a child who is growing away from her.
Book Details
- Publisher: Harper Perennial
- Publish Date: Nov 1st, 2005
- Pages: 240
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.00in - 5.40in - 0.60in - 0.46lb
- EAN: 9780007161324
- Categories: • Literary• Women• Family Life - Parenthood & Children
About the Author
RACHEL CUSK is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Second Place and the Outline trilogy. She has written three memoirs--A Life's Work, The Last Supper and Aftermath--as well as the novels Saving Agnes, winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award; The Country Life, which won a Somerset Maugham Award; The Temporary; The Lucky Ones; In the Fold; Arlington Park; and The Bradshaw Variations. Twice a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor General's Award, and named one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists for 2003, Rachel Cusk is Canadian and lives in Paris.
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Praise for this book
"Cusk has a gift for articulating fluid, unsettling emotions just beneath the surface of consciousness." -- Entertainment Weekly
"Witty, trenchant and...startling." -- Library Journal
"Insightful...perceptively drawn...poignant, evocative and meant to be savored." -- Booklist
"Gorgeous, languorous writing." -- Publishers Weekly
"Impressively written." -- Marie Claire (UK)
"If great fiction puts into words something about ourselves that we didn't know we knew, this is it." -- Daily Mail (London)
"Sharp observation of character, vivid imagistic descriptions." -- Independent on Sunday
"You want to gasp with the shock of recognition at a rarely articulated thought delivered with a visceral punch." -- Independent Magazine
"A lovely book." -- Irish Independent
"[Cusk's] intelligence and emotional honesty give a sense of having experienced, rather than read, this book...extraordinary." -- People
"Witty and topical...a fresh and compassionate portrait." -- The New Yorker
"Subtle and satisfying...a brilliant collection." -- Boston Globe