Parade
A path-breaking novel of art, womanhood and violence, from the author of the Outline trilogy.
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Midway through his life, an artist begins to paint upside down.
In Paris, a woman is attacked by a stranger in the street.
A mother dies. A man falls to his death. Couples seek escape in distant lands.
The new novel from one of the most distinctive writers of the age, Parade sets loose a carousel of lives. It surges past the limits of identity, character, and plot, to tell a true story—about art, family, morality, gender, and how we compose ourselves.
Praise for the Outline trilogy:
‘A work of stunning beauty, deep insight and great originality.’ Monica Ali
‘A landmark in twenty-first-century English literature.’ Observer
‘A perfect synthesis of form and content.’ Deborah Levy
‘Page-turningly enthralling and charged with the power to move.’ Tessa Hadley
‘Reaches a kind of formal perfection . . . masterly.’ Sally Rooney
Cusk knows how to write a great novel.
Cusk is necessary.
Cusk breaks all the rules.
Cusk confounds expectations.
If life were fair, Rachel Cusk would win every prize going.
Cusk pulls off a rare feat: richly philosophical fiction - addressing nothing less ambitious than how to live in relationship with others - in which ideas are so successfully and naturally embedded in the quotidian that the reader can choose whether or not to acknowledge them them.
Rachel Cusk is the author of Outline trilogy, the memoirs A Life’s Work and Aftermath, and several other works of fiction and non-fiction. She is a Guggenheim fellow. She lives in Paris.
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