Life’s Work

Rachel Cusk

A Life’s Work is Rachel Cusk’s controversial, funny and moving account of her first few years of motherhood.

Format
Audio book
ISBN
9780571360680
Date Published
30.01.2020
Delivery
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Summary

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 honest, gritty account of the misery of those early months. It is a seminal, stand-out book on the complications of being an ambivalent mum in an age of white-washed, Annabel Karmel’d new families.

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Rachel Cusk is the author of Second Place (Prix Femina étranger), the Outline trilogy, the memoirs A Life’s Work and Aftermath, and several other works of fiction and nonfiction, including her most recent novel Parade (Goldsmiths Prize, 2024). She is a Guggenheim Fellow, the recipient of the 2024 Malaparte Prize, and has been awarded the title of Chevalier de l’ordre…

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