![]() These conversations, the last of them on the phone with her son, rise dramatically and majestically to a beautiful conclusion.įollowing the novels Outline and Transit, Kudos completes Rachel Cusk's trilogy with overwhelming power. ![]() Once she reaches her destination, the conversations she has with the people she meets - about art, about family, about politics, about love, about sorrow and joy, about justice and injustice - include the most far-reaching questions human beings ask. That woman is Faye, who is on her way to Europe to promote the book she has just published. Brexit provides the sociopolitical background for Cusk’s existential investigation into the nature of freedom and the construction of identity, the concluding volume to her brooding trilogy begun with Outline (2015). ![]() I envy anyone who hasn't read it yet.' Julie Myerson, GuardianĪ woman on a plane listens to the stranger in the seat next to hers telling her the story of his life: his work, his marriage, and the harrowing night he has just spent burying the family dog. 'Kudos is one of the most astoundingly original and necessary books I've ever read. 'A landmark in twenty-first-century English literature.' Andrew Anthony, Observer ![]()
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