{"title":"Rachel Cusk","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"transit","title":"Transit","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the wake of family collapse, a writer and her two young sons move to London. The process of upheaval is the catalyst for a number of transitions  personal, moral, artistic, practical  as she endeavours to construct a new reality for herself and her children. In the city she is made to confront aspects of living she has, until now, avoided, and to consider questions of vulnerability and power, death and renewal, in what becomes her struggle to reattach herself to, and believe in, life.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFiltered through the impersonal gaze of its keenly intelligent protagonist, \u003cem\u003eTransit\u003c\/em\u003e sees Rachel Cusk delve deeper into the themes first raised in her critically acclaimed \u003cem\u003eOutline\u003c\/em\u003e, and offers up a penetrating and moving reflection on childhood and fate, the value of suffering, the moral problems of personal responsibility and the mystery of change.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn this precise, short and yet epic cycle of novels, Cusk manages to describe the most elemental experiences, the liminal qualities of life, through a narrative near-silence that draws language towards it. She captures with unsettling restraint and honesty the longing to both inhabit and flee one's life and the wrenching ambivalence animating our desire to feel real.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goldsboro Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47263841780006,"sku":"9781910702628","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4900\/5606\/files\/6ce904e8-2d54-4e7c-804c-421a726b6aa9.jpg?v=1701086938"},{"product_id":"life-of-m","title":"Life of M","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFrom the critically-acclaimed author of the Outline trilogy, an irresistible novel of fame, power, beauty and truth -- and a blazing renovation of the form\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA little while ago, I told the actor M that I was thinking of writing her autobiography. She liked the idea. She's a good sport. Would you just make it up? she said.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eM is a film star, and one of the most recognisable faces of our time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith such fame, her life has the appearance of freedom: people are instantly obliging, spaces are altered to accommodate her, time can be rearranged. For her, it seems, the rules of reality have melted away.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow M has agreed to let a stranger write her biography. Their project will sprawl and expand: to the olive groves and holiday beaches where M spends her days; across hotel rooms, bourgeois facades, film sets; through endless modern cities. It is hard not to feel ugly next to M, hard not to feel insignificant. But what truths - about the very experience of living - might this proximity allow the writer to briefly capture? And what in the end will M make of their work?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLife of M\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Rachel Cusk has again fashioned a new kind of literature. A novel stripped of artifice, it takes our emptiness and fills it with grace.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'It is truly masterful, her best work so far. I loved it' Vincenzo Latronico\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'[Cusk] is a disciple of the truth, and she helps us to see' Lucy Jones,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eIndependent\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'Roll up, wave a flag and join the crowds to watch Rachel Cusk continue her relentless march through life'\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goldsboro Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57404031795573,"sku":"978-0571399802","price":20.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4900\/5606\/files\/4a4b9570-68da-470a-acf7-73661414f87f.jpg?v=1785165949"}],"url":"https:\/\/goldsborobooks.surf\/collections\/rachel-cusk.oembed","provider":"Goldsboro Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}