Book
Outline : a novel
Record details
- ISBN: 1784702447
- ISBN: 9781784702441
- ISBN: 9780374712365
- ISBN: 0374712360
- ISBN: 0374228345 (hardback)
- ISBN: 9780374228347 (hardback)
- ISBN: 0374228345 : HRD
- ISBN: 9780374228347 (hardback)
- ISBN: 0374228345 (hardback)
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Physical Description:
249 pages ; 22 cm
print - Edition: First American edition.
- Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.
- Copyright: ©2014
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Sequel: Transit (2016). |
| Summary, etc.: | A woman writer goes to Athens in the height of summer to teach a writing course. Though her own circumstances remain indistinct, she becomes the audience to a chain of narratives, as the people she meets tell her one after another the stories of their lives. Beginning with the neighbouring passenger on the flight out and his tales of fast boats and failed marriages, the storytellers talk of their loves and ambitions and pains, their anxieties, their perceptions and daily lives. In the stifling heat and noise of the city the sequence of voice begins to weave a complex human tapestry. The more they talk the more elliptical their listener becomes, as she shapes and directs their accounts until certain themes begin to emerge: the experience of loss, the nature of family life, the difficulty of intimacy and the mystery of creativity itself. Outline is a novel about writing and talking, about self-effacement and self-expression, about the desire to create and the human art of self-portraiture in which that desire finds its universal form. |
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| Subject: | Writers' workshops Fiction English teachers Fiction British Greece Fiction Athens (Greece) Fiction Teachers Fiction Friendship Fiction Emotions Fiction Anxiety Fiction |
| Genre: | Psychological fiction. Novels. Psychological fiction. Autobiographical fiction. |
Available copies
- 32 of 32 copies available at Bibliomation.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 32 total copies.
Other Formats and Editions
| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beekley Community Library - New Hartford | F CUSK R (Text) | 32544072354508 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Bethel Public Library | F CUSK (Text) | 34030130270249 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Brookfield Library | F/CUSK (Text) | 34029131962663 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Burnham Library - Bridgewater | FIC CUSK (Text) | 36937002137223 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| C.H. Booth Library - Newtown | FIC CUSK (Text) | 34014132489429 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Chester Public Library | CUS (Text) | 33210000347043 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| David M. Hunt Library - Falls Village | F Cus (Text) | 33180123746605 | Adult Fiction - First Floor | Available | - |
| Derby Public Library | FIC CUS (Text) | 34047129731593 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Douglas Library - North Canaan | F CUS (Text) | 33490002527434 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Edith Wheeler Memorial Library - Monroe | FIC CUSK,R (Text) | 34026130940351 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Author Notes
Outline : A Novel
Rachel Cusk was born on Feb 8, 1967 in Canada. She spent much of her childhood in Los Angeles and finished her education at St Mary's Convent, Cambridge. her education at St Mary's Convent, Cambridge. In 2003, Rachel Cusk was nominated by Granta magazine as one of 20 'Best of Young British Novelists'. That year she published The Lucky Ones (2003), her fourth novel, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel Award. Since then she has published four more novels; her latest is Outline (2014). She has also written several non-fiction books. A Life's Work: On Becoming a Mother (2001) is a personal exploration of motherhood. The Last Supper: A Summer in Italy (2009) is a memoir about time in southern Italy. In 2015 she made the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction shortlist with her title Outline. (Bowker Author Biography)
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