Outline
by Rachel Cusk
Taste attributes: dramaslowfresh & originalheavyrealisticintricateenclosedemotive & stirringunlikely connectionstroubled leadscomplex relationship
Boxlist takeInventive and realistic: a weighty novel, slow-burning rather than fast. Best if you like real life over fantasy.
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Pace: slow · Originality: fresh · Tone: balanced · Weight: heavy · Realism: true to life · Story: intricate · Structure: balanced · Look: balanced · Scale: confined · Emotional punch: stirringHow we score
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4.0 / 5
4 ratings
About This Book
Rachel Cusk's Outline is a novel in ten conversations. Spare and stark, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing during an oppressively hot summer in Athens. She leads her students in storytelling exercises. She meets other visiting writers for dinners and discourse. She goes swimming with an elderly Greek bachelor.
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- Author
- Rachel Cusk
- Published
- 2014
- Pages
- 256
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- Open Library
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