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24%OFFRachel Cusk - The Lucky Ones - 9781857029130 - V9781857029130
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The Lucky Ones

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Description for The Lucky Ones Paperback.

The much-praised new novel from award-winning author Rachel Cusk, who was one of Granta’s Best of British writers.

In this profound study of human relationships, five overlapping narratives of love and detachment merge to form a powerful evocation of family identity.

A young pregnant woman's misfortune; a new father's disaffection; a daughter's search for lost childhood; a mother's antagonism; a wife's secret suffering – through it all runs the story of Victor Porter, a campaigning lawyer, and his journalist wife ... Read more

Rachel Cusk writes of life's transformations; of what separates us from those we love and what binds us to those we no longer understand. The Lucky Ones is a novel about creating and sustaining life. It illuminates with startling precision the texture and complexity of emotional existence within 'the bustling concourses of life.'

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Product Details

Publisher
HarperPerennial
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781857029130
SKU
V9781857029130
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
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About Rachel Cusk
Rachel Cusk is the author of three novels: SAVING AGNES, which won the Whitbread First Novel Award, THE TEMPORARY, and THE COUNTRY LIFE, which won a Somerset Maugham Award. Her non-fiction account of becoming a mother, A LIFE’S WORK, was one of the most talked about books of last year.

Reviews for The Lucky Ones
'The Lucky Ones has a theme equal to its author's wit, intelligence and genius for observation. This novel is not a particularly comfortable place to be, partly because it's so much like life and partly because Rachel Cusk is brilliant at depicting unattractive characters. But anyone who has ever lived in a family will relish it.' Cressida Connolly, Daily Telegraph ... Read more

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