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Second Place

Rachel Cusk

From the author of the Outline trilogy, a fable of human destiny and decline, enacted in a closed system of intimate, fractured relationships.

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£9.99
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780571366309
Date Published
07.07.2022

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Summary

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LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE

RECIPIENT OF THE PRIX FEMINA ÉTRANGER
SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOVERNER GENERAL’S AWARD

‘The most singular book … a psychodrama that is both timeless and up-to-the-minute.’ Guardian
‘A classic, but with contemporary urgency thumping through it.’ Claire-Louise Bennett
‘A novel of deep insight and scarring honesty.’ Independent

A woman invites a famed artist to the remote coastal landscape where she lives. Drawn to his paintings, she believes his vision may penetrate the mystery at the centre of her life. But as a long, dry summer sets in, his provocative presence soon twists the patterns of her secluded household.

Critic Reviews

Cusk has glimpsed the central truth of modern life . . . She moves through it as a blasted centre full only of instinct and superhuman hearing and hackles.

Patricia Lockwood

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Rachel Cusk is always an exciting writer: striking and challenging, with a distinctive cool prose voice, and behind that coolness something untamed and full of raw force . . .

Tessa Hadley

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Bewildering and bewitching.

Laura Battle, FT, Summer Books

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A stranger comes to stay in this fascinating, uncomfortable exploration of creativity, the male gaze and the gendered experience of freedom. Cusk’s story of a female writer’s power struggle with a male artist is one of the first novels to take inspiration from lockdown.

Guardian, Summer Reading

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Ever inventive, Cusk keeps pushing the novel into new terrain.

Miranda France, Prospect

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Cusk is really interested in ideas — how to live, what freedom means, the ways women subsume themselves into the lives of others … The hybrid form that results — half-novel, half-not — has a timeless, enduring quality.

John Self, The Times

RachelCusk

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 non-fiction, 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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