A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR After the publication of Outline, Transit and
Kudos - in which Rachel Cusk redrew the boundaries of fiction - this writer
of uncommon brilliance returns with a series of essays that offers new
insights on the themes at the heart of her life's work. Encompassing memoir
and cultural and literary criticism, with pieces on gender, politics and
writers such as D. H. Lawrence, Olivia Manning and Natalia Ginzburg, this
collection is essential reading for our age: fearless, unrepentantly
erudite, both startling and rewarding to behold. The result is a cumulative
sense of how the frank, deeply intelligent sensibility - so evident in her
stories and novels - reverberates in the wider context of Cusk's literary
process. Coventry grants its readers a rare opportunity to see a mind at
work that will influence literature for time to come.