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. |
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- 32 of 32 copies available at Bibliomation.
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| Gunn Memorial Library - Washington | FIC CUS (Text) | 34055137542696 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Hotchkiss Library - Sharon | Fic Cus (Text) | 33660132012131 | Upper Level Fiction | Available | - |
| Howard Whittemore Library - Naugatuck | FIC CUSK, RACHEL (Text) | 34027132873467 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Jonathan Trumbull Library - Lebanon | FIC CUS (Text) | 33430130923816 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Kent Library Association - Kent | F CUS (Text) | 33410129594513 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Kent Memorial Library - Suffield | FICTION CUSK (Text) | 32518133180441 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Mark Twain Library Association - Redding | FIC Cus (Text) | 33620128471139 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Milford Public Library | CUSK Rachel (Text) | 34013077322140 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Norfolk Library | FIC CUS - Bk.1 (Text) | 36058010229736 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Oxford Public Library | FIC CUS (Text) | 33530132119253 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
