On the plane there, she has a conversation with her seat neighbor (referred to only as “ neighbor” for the duration of the book. The narrator, a writer from London, travels to Athens to teach a writing course. In this way, Outline is both exhaustive and exhausting, and perhaps feels much more important than it actually is. We’re soon underwater, done in by the density and pressure of the prose and the minute details of daily life and personal histories that compose everyone she encounters. It ties this to the ankles of the narrator and pushes her into the water, and she drags the reader along with her. It’s a weight, a suffocation of stories and characters and social obligation and emotional labor. Cusk’s original and powerful writing captures brilliant and startling insights into facing a great loss and the trauma of change.Outlineis like drowning. And Kudos (2018) has been called “intellectually entrancing” ( The Globe and Mail), “radical and beautiful” ( The New Yorker) and “bracingly compelling” ( Vogue).īrought together in one exquisite collection, this groundbreaking trilogy follows Faye, a novelist facing divorce and family collapse, as she teaches creative writing in Athens, rebuilds a family in London and travels to European cities for literary events-along the way meeting people who help to reveal the merit in suffering, the fear that accompanies mysterious, inescapable change, and the hope of new possibilities that open from it. Transit (2017), has been called “dreamlike” ( Toronto Star), “extraordinary” ( The Daily Telegraph) and “a work of stunning beauty, deep insight and great originality” ( The New York Times Book Review). Outline (2015) was a finalist for both the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction. Rachel Cusk’s ambitious Outline trilogy has received acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic. “These novels are among the most important written in this century so far.” - The Globe and Mail
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