Allen & Un
2007
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Jane Shilling, Evening Standard 'tender, haunting, grimly comic and infinintely disturbing' --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Sunday Times 'funny and exhilaratingly unrepentant ... deliriously enjoyable' --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Observer 'a novel about compromises and, in particular, the ones women make when they become mothers ... an uncomfortable but essential book' --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. James Lasdun, Guardian 'a gripping, at times funny, often rather beautiful book' --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. The Times 'Many writers address the complex subject of modern motherhood, but few navigate those choppy waters as well as Rachel Cusk' --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Synopsis 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 troubled, hilarious spirit presides over Arlington Park and the way of life it represents. Rachel Cusk's sixth novel is her best yet. Full of compassion and wit, she writes about the domestic lives, private thoughts and fears of a group of remarkable and instantly recognisable women. (Pages:) [When referring to this item please quote stockid 157686]
ISBN: 0571228488
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