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Nominated for the Goldsmiths Prize 2018 Welcome to my Goodreads review of a novel that mocks Goodreads reviews! :-) (More about that later.) "Kudos" is largely dialogue-driven and set in the world of literary festivals and book marketing - and while Cusk only alludes to the events and places where sh Leggi tutto

this series never re-captured the same charm the first book had for me - what felt like a pure distillation of intellect and personal philosophy in an incredibly readable and concise form - but overall the pleasure of a literary fiction SERIES could have brought me through in and of itself. and this Leggi tutto

I met with a number of my Goodreads acquaintances – to share with them my thoughts on the concluding part of Rachel's trilogy of books, a book now shortlisted for the 2018 Goldsmith Prize. The first to speak was Meike – she was very keen, she said, to understand my views on the book. She herself was Leggi tutto

Wow. What power this author has. I’d not read anything by Cusk before this, though part of her trilogy had been noted on my to-read list. She is another thoroughly unique and powerful Canadian voice now hailing from the British Isles. What about that last scene? Is that a statement completely in tun Leggi tutto

A slight dip from the trilogy's high point, TRANSIT, and in many ways a return to the more oblique, far-off storytelling of book one, OUTLINE. Here, plot is stretched to the very limit of inaction (we find, very, very obliquely, that the lead has been re-married, we never resolve any of the threads

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I gave ‘Outline’ 4 stars and ‘Transit’ 3.5 stars. I was so disappointed in this last book of her trilogy. I guess the one thing in common with the others, actually two, is that the book consisted of dialogues of her talking with another person, with quite often the other person doing most of the tal Leggi tutto