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Outline rachel cusk review5/28/2023 ![]() Since the early nineties, she has reliably published a novel or a memoir every few years. As she continued writing, Cusk revealed herself to have an unsparing satirical eye that she directed toward fellow upper-middle-class white women, with the result that among British readers she has passionate detractors as well as champions. Her first novel, “Saving Agnes,” was published to high acclaim, in 1993, when she was in her mid-twenties. Though she’s not well known in the United States, Cusk has long been a public figure in England, where she lives. Why go to the trouble to write a great long play about jealousy when jealousy just about summed it up?Īnne’s malaise brings to mind a condition that a number of real-life writers have been reporting, including Cusk herself. ![]() As soon as something was summed up, it was to all intents and purposes dead, a sitting duck, and she could go no further with it. Often it took only one word: tension, for instance, or mother-in-law. . . . Whenever she conceived of a new piece of work, before she had got very far she would find herself summing it up. ![]()
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