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- Release Year
- 2019
- ISBN
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0374126771
ISBN-13
9780374126773
eBay Product ID (ePID)
15038868892
Product Key Features
Book Title
Coventry : Essays
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2019
Topic
Essays
Genre
Literary Collections
Format
Hardcover
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0.9 in
Item Weight
13 Oz
Item Length
8.6 in
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5.6 in
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Trade
LCCN
2019-020202
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"The essays [in Coventry ] chip away at Cusk's preoccupations--the tenuous agreements of civility, the tension between family life and the creative process, the making of a home--from multiple angles in order to chisel towards some sort of truth . . . As the language in her work becomes more streamlined, Cusk's voice in Coventry resonates loud and clear." --Mia Levitin, Financial Times "Fiercely intelligent, with enviable prose that is at once luminous and precise . . . If residing in 'Coventry' has allowed [Cusk] to write with such devastating complexity, I hope she stays there." --Kathryn Maris, New Statesman "Opening up the deep crevices of everyday life's paradoxes, myths, and more, Cusk pulls apart the stories we tell to reflect on the mess underneath." --Maggie Taft, Booklist (starred review) " Readers of the author's first-person fiction will be pleased with the acutely observant narrative voice that characterizes these introspective meditations on family, motherhood, marriage, and community . . . An eloquent and engrossing selection of nonfiction writing that will enhance Cusk's stature in contemporary literature." -- Kirkus (starred review) "Cusk turns her perceptive gaze and distinctive voice to a variety of topics in her arresting first essay collection." -- Publishers Weekly "Impressive and wonderful. Rachel Cusk sees the truth where the rest of us can only make out shadows. Coventry is Cusk's theory of forms." --Lauren Elkin, author of Fl'neuse, Praise for Rachel Cusk and the Outline Trilogy"[Cusk] has that ability, unique to the great performers in every art form, to hold one rapt from the moment she appears . . . A stark, modern, adamantine new skyscraper on the literary horizon." -Dwight Garner, The New York Times "These crystalline and exquisitely elliptical works have helped define the genre of autofiction . . . Modern life has rarely been articulated with such compression and epigrammatic precision. These are texts, finally, to read and revisit, lean, oracular, irreducible." -Dustin Illingworth, Los Angeles Times "Cusk has triumphed in the completion of this masterly trilogy." -Sally Rooney, Slate, "Impressive and wonderful. Rachel Cusk sees the truth where the rest of us can only make out shadows. Coventry is Cusk's theory of forms." --Lauren Elkin, author of Fl'neuse, "The essays [in Coventry ] chip away at Cusk's preoccupations--the tenuous agreements of civility, the tension between family life and the creative process, the making of a home--from multiple angles in order to chisel towards some sort of truth . . . As the language in her work becomes more streamlined, Cusk's voice in Coventry resonates loud and clear." --Mia Levitin, Financial Times "Opening up the deep crevices of everyday life's paradoxes, myths, and more, Cusk pulls apart the stories we tell to reflect on the mess underneath." --Maggie Taft, Booklist (starred review) " Readers of the author's first-person fiction will be pleased with the acutely observant narrative voice that characterizes these introspective meditations on family, motherhood, marriage, and community . . . An eloquent and engrossing selection of nonfiction writing that will enhance Cusk's stature in contemporary literature." -- Kirkus (starred review) "Cusk turns her perceptive gaze and distinctive voice to a variety of topics in her arresting first essay collection." -- Publishers Weekly "Impressive and wonderful. Rachel Cusk sees the truth where the rest of us can only make out shadows. Coventry is Cusk's theory of forms." --Lauren Elkin, author of Fl'neuse, "First-rate, marked by candor and seriousness . . . [Cusk] is a poet of split feelings. Her inquisitive intelligence is the rebar that, inside the concrete, holds the edifice upright . . . I have quoted Cusk a great deal in this review. There are more of her words here than mine . . . But sometimes you just need to get out of the way." --Dwight Garner, The New York Times "[Cusk's voice is] imbued with an authority that is all the more powerful because it is diffuse and flexible, aware of its limited perspective and willing to be measured against those of others . . . Cusk, like the best artists, has renovated her work from its deepest interior--the self--transforming her private crises into an expansive aesthetic vision." --Meaghan O'Gieblyn, The New York Times Book Review "Cusk's unsparing ability to see links between her own experience and broader literary and historical perspectives has always elevated her personal writing above mere memoir, and this collection cements her reputation as one of the most fierce and elegant chroniclers of how we live now." --Stephanie Merritt, The Guardian "The essays [in Coventry ] chip away at Cusk's preoccupations--the tenuous agreements of civility, the tension between family life and the creative process, the making of a home--from multiple angles in order to chisel towards some sort of truth . . . As the language in her work becomes more streamlined, Cusk's voice in Coventry resonates loud and clear." --Mia Levitin, Financial Times "Fiercely intelligent, with enviable prose that is at once luminous and precise . . . If residing in 'Coventry' has allowed [Cusk] to write with such devastating complexity, I hope she stays there." --Kathryn Maris, New Statesman "Opening up the deep crevices of everyday life's paradoxes, myths, and more, Cusk pulls apart the stories we tell to reflect on the mess underneath." --Maggie Taft, Booklist (starred review) " Readers of the author's first-person fiction will be pleased with the acutely observant narrative voice that characterizes these introspective meditations on family, motherhood, marriage, and community . . . An eloquent and engrossing selection of nonfiction writing that will enhance Cusk's stature in contemporary literature." -- Kirkus (starred review) "Cusk turns her perceptive gaze and distinctive voice to a variety of topics in her arresting first essay collection." -- Publishers Weekly "Impressive and wonderful. Rachel Cusk sees the truth where the rest of us can only make out shadows. Coventry is Cusk's theory of forms." --Lauren Elkin, author of Fl'neuse, "First-rate, marked by candor and seriousness . . . [Cusk] is a poet of split feelings. Her inquisitive intelligence is the rebar that, inside the concrete, holds the edifice upright . . . I have quoted Cusk a great deal in this review. There are more of her words here than mine . . . But sometimes you just need to get out of the way." --Dwight Garner, The New York Times "Cusk's unsparing ability to see links between her own experience and broader literary and historical perspectives has always elevated her personal writing above mere memoir, and this collection cements her reputation as one of the most fierce and elegant chroniclers of how we live now." --Stephanie Merritt, The Guardian "The essays [in Coventry ] chip away at Cusk's preoccupations--the tenuous agreements of civility, the tension between family life and the creative process, the making of a home--from multiple angles in order to chisel towards some sort of truth . . . As the language in her work becomes more streamlined, Cusk's voice in Coventry resonates loud and clear." --Mia Levitin, Financial Times "Fiercely intelligent, with enviable prose that is at once luminous and precise . . . If residing in 'Coventry' has allowed [Cusk] to write with such devastating complexity, I hope she stays there." --Kathryn Maris, New Statesman "Opening up the deep crevices of everyday life's paradoxes, myths, and more, Cusk pulls apart the stories we tell to reflect on the mess underneath." --Maggie Taft, Booklist (starred review) " Readers of the author's first-person fiction will be pleased with the acutely observant narrative voice that characterizes these introspective meditations on family, motherhood, marriage, and community . . . An eloquent and engrossing selection of nonfiction writing that will enhance Cusk's stature in contemporary literature." -- Kirkus (starred review) "Cusk turns her perceptive gaze and distinctive voice to a variety of topics in her arresting first essay collection." -- Publishers Weekly "Impressive and wonderful. Rachel Cusk sees the truth where the rest of us can only make out shadows. Coventry is Cusk's theory of forms." --Lauren Elkin, author of Fl'neuse, "First-rate, marked by candor and seriousness . . . [Cusk] is a poet of split feelings. Her inquisitive intelligence is the rebar that, inside the concrete, holds the edifice upright . . . I have quoted Cusk a great deal in this review. There are more of her words here than mine . . . But sometimes you just need to get out of the way." --Dwight Garner, The New York Times "[Cusk's voice is] imbued with an authority that is all the more powerful because it is diffuse and flexible, aware of its limited perspective and willing to be measured against those of others . . . Cusk, like the best artists, has renovated her work from its deepest interior--the self--transforming her private crises into an expansive aesthetic vision." --Meaghan O'Gieblyn, The New York Times Book Review "Cusk is a brilliant, perspicacious social critic whose crisp prose is only matched by the elegance of her insights . . . [ Coventry ] is a daring return to her own voice . . . Luminous." --Cat Zhang, Slate "[Cusk] writes like someone who has been burned and has reacted not with self-censorship but with a doubling-down on clarity. She is blazingly intelligent, a deep, tough-minded thinker . . . [whose essays] are at once freewheeling and exquisitely precise." --Heller McAlpin, NPR "Cusk's unsparing ability to see links between her own experience and broader literary and historical perspectives has always elevated her personal writing above mere memoir, and this collection cements her reputation as one of the most fierce and elegant chroniclers of how we live now." --Stephanie Merritt, The Guardian "The essays [in Coventry ] chip away at Cusk's preoccupations--the tenuous agreements of civility, the tension between family life and the creative process, the making of a home--from multiple angles in order to chisel towards some sort of truth . . . As the language in her work becomes more streamlined, Cusk's voice in Coventry resonates loud and clear." --Mia Levitin, Financial Times "Fiercely intelligent, with enviable prose that is at once luminous and precise . . . If residing in 'Coventry' has allowed [Cusk] to write with such devastating complexity, I hope she stays there." --Kathryn Maris, New Statesman "[Cusk's] fiction and non-fiction alike is relentless in its commitment to exploring the painful struggle for personal truth, whatever the cost . . . Undeniably smart." --Nathan Whitlock, The Star (Toronto) "The word that keeps coming to mind when reading this collection of Rachel Cusk's essays is 'formidable.' It describes her intelligence in writing about everything from literature to parenthood." --John Self, The Irish Times "Opening up the deep crevices of everyday life's paradoxes, myths, and more, Cusk pulls apart the stories we tell to reflect on the mess underneath." --Maggie Taft, Booklist (starred review) " Readers of the author's first-person fiction will be pleased with the acutely observant narrative voice that characterizes these introspective meditations on family, motherhood, marriage, and community . . . An eloquent and engrossing selection of nonfiction writing that will enhance Cusk's stature in contemporary literature." -- Kirkus (starred review) "Cusk turns her perceptive gaze and distinctive voice to a variety of topics in her arresting first essay collection." -- Publishers Weekly "Impressive and wonderful. Rachel Cusk sees the truth where the rest of us can only make out shadows. Coventry is Cusk's theory of forms." --Lauren Elkin, author of Fl'neuse, "First-rate, marked by candor and seriousness . . . [Cusk] is a poet of split feelings. Her inquisitive intelligence is the rebar that, inside the concrete, holds the edifice upright . . . I have quoted Cusk a great deal in this review. There are more of her words here than mine . . . But sometimes you just need to get out of the way." --Dwight Garner, The New York Times "[Cusk's voice is] imbued with an authority that is all the more powerful because it is diffuse and flexible, aware of its limited perspective and willing to be measured against those of others . . . Cusk, like the best artists, has renovated her work from its deepest interior--the self--transforming her private crises into an expansive aesthetic vision." --Meaghan O'Gieblyn, The New York Times Book Review "Cusk is a brilliant, perspicacious social critic whose crisp prose is only matched by the elegance of her insights . . . [ Coventry ] is a daring return to her own voice . . . Luminous." --Cat Zhang, Slate "[Cusk] writes like someone who has been burned and has reacted not with self-censorship but with a doubling-down on clarity. She is blazingly intelligent, a deep, tough-minded thinker . . . [whose essays] are at once freewheeling and exquisitely precise." --Heller McAlpin, NPR "As in her novels, Cusk's prose in these essays is a tight guitar string or a wire from an espalier. Her descriptions . . . have a bewildering precision, a feeling of painful truthfulness." --Claire Jarvis, Bookforum "Cusk's unsparing ability to see links between her own experience and broader literary and historical perspectives has always elevated her personal writing above mere memoir, and this collection cements her reputation as one of the most fierce and elegant chroniclers of how we live now." --Stephanie Merritt, The Guardian "The essays [in Coventry ] chip away at Cusk's preoccupations--the tenuous agreements of civility, the tension between family life and the creative process, the making of a home--from multiple angles in order to chisel towards some sort of truth . . . As the language in her work becomes more streamlined, Cusk's voice in Coventry resonates loud and clear." --Mia Levitin, Financial Times "Fiercely intelligent, with enviable prose that is at once luminous and precise . . . If residing in 'Coventry' has allowed [Cusk] to write with such devastating complexity, I hope she stays there." --Kathryn Maris, New Statesman "[Cusk's] fiction and non-fiction alike is relentless in its commitment to exploring the painful struggle for personal truth, whatever the cost . . . Undeniably smart." --Nathan Whitlock, The Star (Toronto) "The word that keeps coming to mind when reading this collection of Rachel Cusk's essays is 'formidable.' It describes her intelligence in writing about everything from literature to parenthood." --John Self, The Irish Times "Opening up the deep crevices of everyday life's paradoxes, myths, and more, Cusk pulls apart the stories we tell to reflect on the mess underneath." --Maggie Taft, Booklist (starred review) " Readers of the author's first-person fiction will be pleased with the acutely observant narrative voice that characterizes these introspective meditations on family, motherhood, marriage, and community . . . An eloquent and engrossing selection of nonfiction writing that will enhance Cusk's stature in contemporary literature." -- Kirkus (starred review) "Cusk turns her perceptive gaze and distinctive voice to a variety of topics in her arresting first essay collection." -- Publishers Weekly "Impressive and wonderful. Rachel Cusk sees the truth where the rest of us can only make out shadows. Coventry is Cusk's theory of forms." --Lauren Elkin, author of Fl'neuse, "Opening up the deep crevices of everyday life's paradoxes, myths, and more, Cusk pulls apart the stories we tell to reflect on the mess underneath." --Maggie Taft, Booklist (starred review) " Readers of the author's first-person fiction will be pleased with the acutely observant narrative voice that characterizes these introspective meditations on family, motherhood, marriage, and community . . . An eloquent and engrossing selection of nonfiction writing that will enhance Cusk's stature in contemporary literature." -- Kirkus (starred review) "Cusk turns her perceptive gaze and distinctive voice to a variety of topics in her arresting first essay collection." -- Publishers Weekly "Impressive and wonderful. Rachel Cusk sees the truth where the rest of us can only make out shadows. Coventry is Cusk's theory of forms." --Lauren Elkin, author of Fl'neuse
Dewey Decimal
824.92
Table Of Content
I: Coventry Driving as Metaphor Coventry On Rudeness Making Home Lions on Leashes Aftermath II: A Tragic Pastime Louise Bourgeois: Suites on Fabric I Am Nothing, I Am Everything Shakespeare's Sisters How to Get There III: Classics and Bestsellers Edith Wharton: The Age of Innocence D. H. Lawrence: The Rainbow On Françoise Sagan Olivia Manning: The Balkan Trilogy Eat, Pray, Love Never Let Me Go On Natalia Ginzburg
Synopsis
NPR's Favorite Books of 2019 Rachel Cusk redrew the boundaries of fiction with the Outline Trilogy, three "literary masterpieces" ( The Washington Post ) whose narrator, Faye, perceives the world with a glinting, unsparing intelligence while remaining opaque to the reader. Lauded for the precision of her prose and the quality of her insight, Cusk is a writer of uncommon brilliance. Now, in Coventry , she gathers a selection of her nonfiction writings that both offers new insights on the themes at the heart of her fiction and forges a startling critical voice on some of our most urgent personal, social, and artistic questions. Coventry encompasses memoir, cultural criticism, and writing about literature, with pieces on family life, gender, and politics, and on D. H. Lawrence, Fran oise Sagan, and Kazuo Ishiguro. Named for an essay Cusk published in Granta ("Every so often, for offences actual or hypothetical, my mother and father stop speaking to me. There's a funny phrase for this phenomenon in England: it's called being sent to Coventry"), this collection is pure Cusk and essential reading for our age: fearless, unrepentantly erudite, and dazzling to behold., NPR's Favorite Books of 2019 Rachel Cusk redrew the boundaries of fiction with the Outline Trilogy, three "literary masterpieces" ( The Washington Post ) whose narrator, Faye, perceives the world with a glinting, unsparing intelligence while remaining opaque to the reader. Lauded for the precision of her prose and the quality of her insight, Cusk is a writer of uncommon brilliance. Now, in Coventry , she gathers a selection of her nonfiction writings that both offers new insights on the themes at the heart of her fiction and forges a startling critical voice on some of our most urgent personal, social, and artistic questions. Coventry encompasses memoir, cultural criticism, and writing about literature, with pieces on family life, gender, and politics, and on D. H. Lawrence, Françoise Sagan, and Kazuo Ishiguro. Named for an essay Cusk published in Granta ("Every so often, for offences actual or hypothetical, my mother and father stop speaking to me. There's a funny phrase for this phenomenon in England: it's called being sent to Coventry"), this collection is pure Cusk and essential reading for our age: fearless, unrepentantly erudite, and dazzling to behold.
LC Classification Number
PR6053.U825A6 2019
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- 7***c (408)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseI got 4 books from this seller. One was wrong book (same writer,simular covers) which,when you order used books several at a time from big used book warehouses, this happens every now and then. Seller contacted me and refunded within a couple hours on the same business day. These people do business right.The 3 others were just as described, packed perfect. Shipping was on time. Good books at good price and a seller who does business right. I highly recommend this seller and the items I ordered.
- c***m (445)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseAAA+++; Excellent Service; Great Pricing; Fast Delivery-Faster Than Expected to Hawaii using free shipping USPS Ground Mail, Received 06/18; Paperback book in Great Condition as Described ; TLC Packaging; Excellent Seller Communication, Sends updates . Highly Recommended!, Thank you very much!Jesse Livermore: World's Greatest Stock Trader (#146613728980)
- r***o (1609)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchasethe book I received was in brand new condition .As shown in my picture, much better condition than I expected. It was packaged well and it arrived very fast for media mail. unfortunately I thought I buying the second edition that came with an index. the seller quickly fixed the problem , good communication. 100%positive and I would recommend this seller.