Rachel Cusk

En kvinne sitter på et fly og hører på den fremmede i setet ved siden av fortelle om sitt liv. Han snakker om jobben, ekteskapet sitt og en opprivende opplevelse han akkurat har hatt: Han har gravlagt familiens hund. Kvinnen er Faye, og hun er på vei til Europa for å markedsføre boken hun akkurat har utgitt. Vel fremme snakker hun med menneskene hun møter – om kunst, familie, politikk, sorg og glede, rettferdighet og urettferdighet. På denne måten nærmer hun seg noen av de viktigste spørsmålene vi mennesker stiller. Disse samtalene, den siste med hennes egen sønn, vokser dramatisk og majestetisk sammen til en vakker avslutning. Kudos fullender Cusks trilogi med overveldende kraft. Trilogien er en av fiksjonens store triumfer.«Solid avslutning av Cusks tankevekkende trilogi […] Valgene mennesker tar undersøkes med oppriktig nysgjerrighet […] Til sist blir vi sittende og granske hva som egentlig er viktigst i våre egne liv.» Ida Vågsether, Stavanger Aftenblad «En litterær triumf! Med utgivelsen av Kudos har Rachel Cusk fullført sin dypt originale og høyst lesverdige trilogi om forfatteren Faye. La det være sagt med én gang: Dette er storartet litteratur, der form og innhold går opp i en høyere enhet og skaper sine egne estetiske lover og regler.» Gabriel Michael Vosgraff Moro, VG «…en uhyre velkomponert og gjennomtenkt trilogi» Erle Marie Sørheim, Dagbladet«Litterær magi fra Rachel Cusk … uansett om Cusk skriver om spesifikt erfaringer, ærlighet, alminnelig familieliv, spørsmålet om skjebne og verdien av lidelse, er det alltid interessant, alltid velformulert» Anne Merethe K. Prinos, Aftenposten «…i trilogien som nå kan leses som en helhet på norsk, står Rachel Cusk fram som en oppsiktsvekkende skarp og observant forfatter, med en original og modig vri på det man kan kalle den autobiografiske romanen […] Cusk har levert et originalt litterært bidrag til en ærligere forståelse av hvilke krefter og følelser som styrer livene våre.» Turid Larsen, Dagsavisen «Presis og tankevekkende […] Uforglemmelig.» Jenny Offill, The New York Times«[Cusk] har skapt noe som både er radikalt og vakkert … [Kudos] er en bok om å mislykkes som selv langt fra er mislykket. Den er tvert imot en betagende suksess.» The New Yorker«Kudos besitter en slags formell perfeksjon. Knapt et ord i denne usedvanlig velformede prosaen er feilplassert … Med siste bind i denne mesterlige trilogien har Cusk begått en stor bragd.» Sally Rooney, Slate«[Omriss]-trilogien er en storartet utforskning av de sosiale vanene og antakelsene som sett under ett begynner å se mistenkelig ut som en mannsverden der kvinner tilfeldigvis er nødt til å leve … [Omriss, Transitt og Kudos] står som et landemerke i det 21. århundrets engelske litteratur, høydepunktet i en kunstners urokkelige arbeid med å finne sin egen vei.» The Guardian «[Cusk] har den evnen som tilhører de virkelig store innenfor alle kunstformer, nemlig evnen til å holde deg fanget fra det øyeblikket hun kommer til syne … En steil, moderne og skinnende skyskraper på den litterære horisonten.» Dwight Garner, The New York Times«Gjennom en veltalende polyfoni av stemmer og meninger kommer denne viktige trilogien fram til en idé om feministisk kunst som står i kontrast til den bekjennelseslitteraturen som lenge har vært dominerende. Cusks redskaper er ambivalens og unnvikenhet – eller for å si det med en omskrivning av James Joyces begreper: eksil, kyndighet og taushet.» The Wall Street Journal«[Omriss-trilogien] av Rachel Cusk har vært en åpenbaring. Hun har en spars...

In the wake of her family's collapse, a writer and her two young sons move to London. The upheaval is the catalyst for a number of transitions - personal, moral, artistic, and practical - as she endeavours to construct a new reality for herself and her children. In the city, she is made to confront aspects of living that she has, until now, avoided, and to consider questions of vulnerability and power, death and renewal, in what becomes her struggle to reattach herself to, and believe in, life. Filtered through the impersonal gaze of its keenly intelligent protagonist, Transit sees Rachel Cusk delve deeper into the themes first raised in her critically acclaimed novel Outline, and offers up a penetrating and moving reflection on childhood and fate, the value of suffering, the moral problems of personal responsibility and the mystery of change. '[Transit] confirms that one of the most fascinating projects in contemporary fiction is unfolding in Rachel Cusk's trilogy.' Adam Foulds

Outline is a novel in ten conversations. Spare and lucid, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing over an oppressively hot summer in Athens. She leads her student in storytelling exercises. She meets other writers for dinner. She goes swimming in the Ionian Sea with her seatmate from the place. The people she encounters speak volubly about themselves, their fantasies, anxieties, pet theories, regrets, and longings. And through these disclosures, a portrait of the narrator is drawn by contrast, a portrait of a woman learning to face great a great loss. Outline is the first book in a short and yet epic cycle - a masterful trilogy which will be remembered as one of the most significant achievements of our times. 'Outline succeeds powerfully. Among other things, it gets a great variety of human beings down on the page with both immediacy and depth; an elemental pleasure that makes the book as gripping to read as a thriller... A stellar accomplishment.' James Lasdun, Guardian

Faye åker till Aten för att undervisa. Under några infernaliskt varma sommardagar möter hon en rad individer som alla gör henne till åhörare medan de berättar om sina liv. En efter en redogör de för sina äktenskap, familjerelationer, drömmar, misslyckanden och farhågor, och gradvis träder även Fayes utsatthet fram. Konturer är en roman som består av samtal: om skapande och självutplåning, separation och förluster – om att ana existensen i mötet med andras berättelser. I Rachel Cusks verk blir lyssnandet ett slags berättande, och Konturer växer till en unik studie av hur berättelser styr våra liv. Romanen ingår, med de efterföljande delarna Transit och Kudos, i en trilogi som världen över hälsats som en förnyelse av romankonsten.” Formmässig briljans, språklig precision och existentiell utsatthet – allt är mästerligt balanserat i Rachel Cusks verk.” Linn Ullmann”De bästa berättelserna är de som får dig att känna dig både nöjd och omskakad – det var längde sedan jag läste en så ovanlig, häpnadsväckande originell och oroande roman.” The Observer

National Bestseller - A Finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize - A Finalist for the Goldsmiths Prize - Long-listed for the International Dublin Literary Award - One of Time Magazine's Top 10 Fiction Books of the Year A New York Times Book Review Notable Book - Named a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian, Southern Living, NOW Magazine, Commonweal, The Washington Independent Review of Books, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Globe and Mail, BOMB Magazine, and The National Post (Canada) The Stunning Second Novel of a Trilogy That Began with Outline, One of New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the YearIn the wake of her family's collapse, a writer and her two young sons move to London. The process of this upheaval is the catalyst for a number of transitions--personal, moral, artistic, and practical--as she endeavors to construct a new reality for herself and her children. In the city, she is made to confront aspects of living that she has, until now, avoided, and to consider questions of vulnerability and power, death and renewal, in what becomes her struggle to reattach herself to, and believe in, life. Filtered through the impersonal gaze of its keenly intelligent protagonist, Transit sees Rachel Cusk delve deeper into the themes first raised in her critically acclaimed novel Outline and offers up a penetrating and moving reflection on childhood and fate, the value of suffering, the moral problems of personal responsibility, and the mystery of change. In this second book of a precise and short yet epic cycle, Cusk describes the most elemental experiences, the liminal qualities of life. She captures with unsettling restraint and honesty the longing to both inhabit and flee one's life, and the wrenching ambivalence animating our desire to feel real.

National Bestseller - A Finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize - A Finalist for the Goldsmiths Prize - Longlisted for the International DUBLIN Literary Award - One of Time Magazine's Top 10 Fiction Books of the YearA New York Times Book Review Notable Book - Named a Best Book of the Year by Time, The Guardian, BOMB Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, Commonweal, Southern Living, NOW Magazine, The Washington Independent Review of Books, Book Depository, The Globe and Mail, and The National Post (Canada)The stunning second novel of a trilogy that began with Outline, one of The New York Times Book Review's ten best books of 2015In the wake of her family's collapse, a writer and her two young sons move to London. The process of this upheaval is the catalyst for a number of transitions--personal, moral, artistic, and practical--as she endeavors to construct a new reality for herself and her children. In the city, she is made to confront aspects of living that she has, until now, avoided, and to consider questions of vulnerability and power, death and renewal, in what becomes her struggle to reattach herself to, and believe in, life. Filtered through the impersonal gaze of its keenly intelligent protagonist, Transit sees Rachel Cusk delve deeper into the themes first raised in her critically acclaimed novel Outline and offers up a penetrating and moving reflection on childhood and fate, the value of suffering, the moral problems of personal responsibility, and the mystery of change. In this second book of a precise, short, yet epic cycle, Cusk describes the most elemental experiences, the liminal qualities of life. She captures with unsettling restraint and honesty the longing to both inhabit and flee one's life, and the wrenching ambivalence animating our desire to feel real.

Michael first met the Hanburys of Egypt Hill when he was a young student. He was intrigued and delighted by their bohemian lifestyle and bravado. Twelve years later, married with a young son, Michael is invited back to the house and jumps at the chance of escaping his increasingly turbulent domestic situation. But his illusions about the family are shattered as the rotten core of the Hanbury myth is gradually revealed. Intimate in its insight, epic in its emotional scope, In the Fold is a brilliant, clever, often painful story of how we can become undone by our yearning to belong.

The much-praised new novel from award-winning author Rachel Cusk, who was one of Granta's Best of British writers.

Winner of the Whitbread Prize for Best First Novel Agnes Day is mildly discontent. As a child, she never wanted to be an Agnes--she wanted to be a pleasing Grace. Alas, she remained the terminally middle class, hopelessly romantic Agnes. Now she's living with her two best friends in London and working at a trade magazine. Life and love seem to go on without her. Not only does she not know how to get back into the game, she isn't even sure what the game is. But she gives a good performance--until she learns that her roommates and her boyfriend are keeping secrets from her, and that her boss is quitting and leaving her in charge. In great despair, she decides to make it her business to set things straight. Saving Agnes is a perceptive, fresh, and honest novel that has delighted readers and critics on both sides of the Atlantic.

M, en kvinne i opprør med seg selv, vandrer rundt i Paris’ solfylte gater og kommer over utstillingen til en berømt kunstner. Bildene slipper ikke taket i henne, selv ikke etter at hun er kommet hjem til den øde kystregionen der hun bor sammen med mannen sin. Tanken på bildene og kunstneren som har malt dem, fortsetter å uroe henne. Hun skriver derfor til ham og inviterer ham på besøk. Dermed snus dagliglivet på hodet. Datteren til M vender tilbake til hjemstedet med kjæresten sin, samtidig som maleren dukker opp med en vakker, ung kvinne. I denne lukkede verdenen oppstår det snart gnisninger. Malerens stille, men demoniske tilstedeværelse skaper kaos i M. Etter hvert som hemmeligheter, allianser og lengsler kommer til syne, er hun tvunget til å velge mellom sine dypeste impulser: å innrette seg eller å gjøre opprør. Romanen svever mellom fortid og nåtid, det gotiske og samtidige, fiksjon og virkelighet – og fortsetter å hjemsøke leseren lenge etter at boken er lest ferdig. Med Et tilfluktssted utforsker Rachel Cusk muligheten for at kunst både kan redde og ødelegge oss, og bekrefter at menneskets sjel kan slåss med de mørkeste demoner. Rachel Cusk er en av Storbritannias og vår tids mest toneangivende forfattere, og hun har vært nominert til, og vunnet, en rekke priser for bøkene sine. «Alle som har lese bøker av Rachel Cusk, veit at den kanadisk-britiske forfattaren er språkdyktig, stilsikker og skarpsynt nok til å gi lesaropplevingar som verkeleg lear på ting inni lesaren. Det blir nesten overflødig å nemna at også årets utgjeving er velskriven.» Sofie Braut, Stavanger Aftenblad«Cusks romaner er blitt en litterær attraksjon, både i den engelskspråklige verden og her til lands. Dere må bære over med meg, kjære lesere, for det åpenbare må sies: Jammen er hun spektakulær!» Carina Elisabeth Beddari, Morgenbladet«Et tilfluktssted er en sylskarpt tenkt roman om kjønn, makt og privilegier, om kunst og kunstens potensial.» Anne Merethe K. Prinos, Aftenposten«Rachel Cusk har ikke skrevet bedre. Det sier ikke lite. Det er ikke ofte jeg leser starten på en roman fire-fem ganger. I møte med Rachel Cusk siste korte roman Et tilfluktssted, om en middeladrende forfatters livskrise, har jeg ikke tall på hvor mange ganger jeg må stoppe opp, gå tilbake, lese på nytt, notere og reflektere. Jeg kan ikke huske sist jeg leste en roman som er så fortettet og med en slik svimlende dybde.» Hilde Slåtto, Vårt Land«... en vilt interessant roman.» Elise Winterthun, Klassekampen«Rachel Cusks nye roman Et tilfluktssted — hennes første siden gjennombruddet med Omriss-trilogien — er et nydelig og smertelig stykke arbeid.» Vox «Rachel Cusk viser hvorfor hun er en av våre mest interessante forfattere.» The Times«Omriss-trilogien er vanskelig å følge opp, men Et tilfluktssted er et utmerket steg videre.» NPR«… ved å bruke Luhans memoarer som mal for karakterer og plott, er Cusk i stand til å dykke ned i de ideene som interesserer henne mest, og det fører Et tilfluktssted til dype, innsiktsfulle steder.» The Washington Post«Strålende prosa og gjennomborende innsikt formidler et mørkt, men overbevisende syn på menneskenes natur.» Kirkus Review

A vivid and elegant memoir of a family's season abroad by the author of the Outline trilogy. When Rachel Cusk decides to travel to Italy for a summer with her husband and two young children, she has no idea of the trials and wonders that lie in store. Their journey, chronicled in The Last Supper, leads them to both the expected and the surprising, all seen through Cusk's sharp and humane perspective.

The piece of marble is no more a painting than nature itself is a painting, yet like a painting it speaks for itself: it is complete. It is separated from the process of its own becoming and can stand apart. It is also a narrative of sorts, a story of time, though one with neither protagonist nor author – a very impartial kind of witness, this [. ] piece of marble, that is being given an opportunity to testify. — Rachel Cusk, Marble in Metamorphosis In her essay of the same name, Marble in Metamorphosis, Rachel Cusk explores the meaning of marble in different cultures. On a visit to a marble-bearing Greek island in the Aegean Sea, she considers its enduring nature, itself brought about after a period of great pressure. Marble has long been used to display political power and wealth. It also betrays vanity and corruption. Dictators built their palaces from marble which outlasted their rule and now disappear gradually into the ground, literally sinking beneath the weight of their own ambition. Marble decorates modern homes as a covetable and expensive form of interior design, commercialised and democratised, mined on an industrial scale. In reflecting on the deep relationship between marble and human culture, Marble in Metamorphosis examines the social and historical function of the material throughout time, the fate of monuments through history and the tension between classicism and realism in art and architecture. Chris Kontos’s photography explores two landscapes marked by marble and its uses: the island of Tinos, with its centuries-old tradition of marble mining and craft, and Athens, which has an ancient and enduring connection to marble evident in its ubiquitous presence throughout the city. Rachel Cusk is the author of the Outline trilogy, the memoirs A Life’s Work and Aftermath, and several other works of fiction and non-fiction. She has won the Whitbread first novel prize and been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the Women’s Prize, the Folio Prize and the Goldsmith’s Prize. She is a Guggenheim fellow and lives in Paris. Chris Kontos is a photographer and founder of Kennedy Magazine, a publication about culture, music, cinema, photography and menswear. Nadine Monem is a Canadian writer of memoir and theory, and a lecturer in creative writing at Central Saint Martins. She is the founder of independent artists’ book publisher, common-editions. Molonglo publications support a better understanding of the built environment by reaffirming the value of unconventional approaches and opening up discussions about urbanism to include a wider range of perspectives. Molonglo works across Australia, the UK and Greece in property development and investment, research and publishing.

Rachel Cusk's second novel is a ruthless, surprising story of work, gender, and control. Ralph Loman is working in an unsatisfying job at a free London newspaper when Francine Snaith, a temporary secretary for a corporate finance firm, unexpectedly crosses his path at a party. Her beauty ignites a blaze of excitement in his troubled heart. But Francine is ravenous for attention, driven by a thirst for conquest, and when Ralph tries politely to extricate himself, he finds he is bound by chains of consequence from which it seems there is no escape. In The Temporary, Rachel Cusk paints a merciless portrait of the cut and thrust of modern romance, work, and life.

Efter den kritikerroste Faye-trilogi er Rachel Cusk aktuel med Det andet sted, endnu en knivskarp roman fra en af vor tids mest kritikerroste engelsksprogede forfattere. Det andet sted er spækket med Cusks sylespidse sprog og observationer over ægteskab, forældreskab, begær og det at blive ældre. En kvindelig forfatter inviterer en kunstmaler, som hun længe har været dybt fascineret af, hjem til sit isolerede landsted i England, hvor hun bor sammen med sin nye mand. Her har hun istandsat et anneks, som forfattere og kunstnere kan bo i. Efter at maleren har holdt hende hen i flere måneder, dukker han pludselig op sammen med sin unge, smukke elskerinde. Et tiltagende komplekst og destruktivt socialt spil begynder at udfolde sig. Forfatteren higer efter malerens opmærksomhed, han for sin part ignorerer hende fuldkommen, når han ikke er direkte fjendtlig – indtil han en dag indvilger i at male hende, og alt spidser til. Både ægteskab og familierelationer sættes på spil i det drama, der udvikler sig i de nu tiltagende klaustrofobiske omgivelser i det engelske marskland - og personernes indre skyggesider begynder for alvor at spejle sig i deres handlinger. Denne bog er oversat af Birgitte Steffen Nielsen.

Novellix – Stor litteratur i et lille formatEn æske fyldt med venskab. Her er fortællinger om loyalitet og om at dele alt. Om forrådt tillid og skuffelse, kærlighed og omtanke. Om venskaber på godt og ondt - på tre forskellige kontinenter. Noveller af fire af tidens mest priste internationale forfattere - til dig selv eller din bedste ven. Æsken indeholder fire bøger:Rachel Cusk – Det er sådan man gørLisa Taddeo – Weekend i forstadenChimamanda Ngozi Adichie – ApolloTessa Hadley – Solstik

A New York Times Notable Book of the YearWinner of the Somerset Maugham Award The Country Life, Rachel Cusk's third novel, is a rich and subtle story about embarrassment, awkwardness, and being alone; about families, or the lack of them; and about love in some peculiar guises. "A brilliant oxymoron--a serious farce . . . Cusk's ability to keep us interested in innumerable human collisions is uncanny." --The New Yorker Stella Benson sets off for Hilltop, a tiny Sussex village housing a family that is somewhat larger-than-life. Her hopes for the Maddens may be high, but her station among them--as au pair to their irascible son, Martin--is undeniably low. What could possibly have driven her to leave her home, job, and life in London for such rural ignominy? Why has she severed all contact with her parents? And why is she so reluctant to talk about her past?

"Astonishing . . . The Bradshaw Variations is a timely, necessary story." --Elle Thomas Bradshaw and Tonie Swann are experiencing the classic symptoms of marriage in its middle years: comfortable house, happy-enough daughter, and an eerie sense that life might be happening elsewhere. Then Tonie accepts a big promotion at work and Thomas agrees to become a stay-at-home dad. While Thomas is suddenly faced with the daily silence of an empty house, Tonie finds herself alive to previously unimagined possibilities. And at the head of the family, the aging Bradshaw parents continue their marital dynamic of bickering and petty undermining. The seventh novel by the acclaimed author of the Outline trilogy, Rachel Cusk's The Bradshaw Variations is a lyrical, subversive tale of a marriage unraveling.

Multi-award-winning author Rachel Cusk's honest memoir that captures the life-changing wonders of motherhood. Selected by The New York Times as one of the 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years "Funny and smart and refreshingly akin to a war diary--sort of Apocalypse Baby Now . . . A Life's Work is wholly original and unabashedly true." --The New York Times Book Review A Life's Work: On Becoming a Mother is Rachel Cusk's funny, moving, brutally honest account of her early experiences of motherhood. When it was published it 2001, it divided critics and readers. One famous columnist wrote a piece demanding that Cusk's children be taken into care, saying she was unfit to look after them, and Oprah Winfrey invited her on the show to defend herself. An education in babies, books, breast-feeding, toddler groups, broken nights, bad advice and never being alone, it is a landmark work, which has provoked acclaim and outrage in equal measure.