Après Disent-ils (2016) et Transit (2018), acclamés par la critique, Rachel Cusk conclut son ambitieuse trilogie. Dans ce troisième volet, nous retrouvons le personnage de Faye, romancière britannique, divorcée et mère de deux enfants. Elle passe quelques jours en Europe pour participer à un fest...
" Je reçus un e-mail d'une astrologue m'informant qu'elle avait d'importantes nouvelles à m'annoncer à propos d'événements censés survenir bientôt dans ma vie. " L'importante nouvelle que Faye apprend dès les premières pages, c'est qu'un transit majeur doit se produire prochainement dans son ciel. ...
Traduit de l'anglais par Céline Leroy Au coeur de l'été, une romancière britannique se rend à Athènes pour animer un atelier d'écriture. D'elle, nous ne saurons presque rien. Parce qu'elle est parfaitement vacante, elle prête une oreille attentive à ce que disent les autres et devient comme une cha...
Since leaving his job to look after Alexa, his eight year old daughter, Thomas Bradshaw has found the structure of his daily piano practice and the study of musical form brings a nourishment to these difficult middle years. His pursuit of a more artistic way of life shocks and irritates his parents ...
Juliet is enraged at the victory of men over women in family life. Amanda is warding off thoughts of death with obsessive housework. Solly is confronting her own buried femininity in the person of her Italian lodger. This novel talks about the domestic lives, private thoughts and fears of a group of...
« Mon mari et moi nous sommes séparés il y a peu, et en quelques semaines, la vie que nous avions construite a été brisée, tel un puzzle réduit à un tas de pièces aux formes irrégulières. » Ni confession impudique ni fiction pure, ce texte lucide et percutant est l'histoire d'une femme, écrivain, mè...
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 an...
When prize-winning author 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 leads them to both the expected - the Piero della Francesca trail and queues at the Vatican - and the surpr...
Michael first met the Hanbury's of Egypt Hill when he was a student. He was intrigued by their bohemian lifestyle. Twelve years later, Michael is invited back to the house and jumps at the chance of escaping his turbulent domestic situation. But his illusions about the family are shattered as the ro...
Using her own life as a starting point, Rachel looks at the issues that arise for a woman in the years after she has lived the defining experiences of feminity. She writes about marriage, separation, motherhood, work, money, domesticity and love. Cusk considers the kinds of generational knowledge th...
Agnes Day - sub-editor, suburbanite, failure extraordinaire - is unwell. Terminally middle-class, incurably romantic and chronically confused by life's most basic interactions, Agnes discovers disconcerting gaps in her general understanding of the world, making recovery unlikely. Life and love go on...
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