A Life's Work

Name: A Life's Work
Author: Rachel Cusk

by Rachel Cusk

Memoir about motherhood, desire, and the author's path to writing

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Rachel Cusk

British-Canadian novelist whose Outline Trilogy transformed autofiction into a radical and widely influential form. Her earlier autobiographical works on motherhood and divorce were equally controversial and celebrated. She is one of the most formally innovative and discussed novelists working in English.

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