{"title":"Rachel Cusk","description":"Rachel Cusk is the author of three memoirs-A Life's Work, The Last Supper, and Aftermath-and several novels: Saving Agnes, winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award; The Temporary; The Country Life, which won a Somerset Maugham Award; The Lucky Ones; In the Fold; Arlington Park; and The Bradshaw Variations. She was chosen as one of Granta's 2003 Best of Young British Novelists. She lives in London.","products":[{"product_id":"saving-agnes-paperback","title":"Saving Agnes - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA new paperback edition of Rachel Cusk's debut novel, winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eSaving Agnes\u003c\/i\u003e, Agnes Day--subeditor, suburbanite, failure extraordinaire--has discovered disconcerting gaps in her general understanding of the world. Terminally middle-class and incurably romantic, Agnes finds herself chronically confused by the most basic interactions. Life and love go on without her, but with a little facade she can pass herself off as a success. Beneath the fiction, however, the burden of truth becomes harder to bear.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101559001311,"sku":"9781250828200","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/U1FOeENGclk2QW5wa1NwSURlc0hOZz09.webp?v=1781071723"},{"product_id":"the-country-life-paperback","title":"The Country Life - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ethe Somerset Maugham Award\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Country Life\u003c\/i\u003e, Rachel Cusk's third novel, is a rich and subtle story about embarrassment, awkwardness, and being alone; about families, or the lack of them; and about love in some peculiar guises. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A brilliant oxymoron--a serious farce . . . Cusk's ability to keep us interested in innumerable human collisions is uncanny.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStella Benson sets off for Hilltop, a tiny Sussex village housing a family that is somewhat larger-than-life. Her hopes for the Maddens may be high, but her station among them--as au pair to their irascible son, Martin--is undeniably low. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat could possibly have driven her to leave her home, job, and life in London for such rural ignominy? Why has she severed all contact with her parents? And why is she so reluctant to talk about her past?","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101623685343,"sku":"9781250828156","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/eGVyUm1uLzZ3cVMyV0syVThBalRXdz09.webp?v=1781071847"},{"product_id":"arlington-park-paperback","title":"Arlington Park - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eSunday Times \u003c\/i\u003e(London) Top 100 Novel of the Twenty-First Century\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"No one has written better about what, I suppose, is generally known as female experience . . . All of it is familiar from life but not (thus far) from literature. Everything about \u003ci\u003eArlington\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ePark\u003c\/i\u003e is original and fearless.\" --Francine Prose, \u003ci\u003eBookforum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSet over the course of one rainy day in an ordinary English suburb, \u003ci\u003eArlington\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e Park\u003c\/i\u003e is a viciously funny portrait of a group of young mothers, each bound to their families, each straining for some kind of independence: Juliet, enraged at the victory of men over women in family life; Amanda, warding off thoughts of death with obsessive housework; Solly, about to give birth to her fourth child; Maisie, struggling to accept provincial life; and Christine, the optimist and host of a dinner party where the neighbors come together. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePenetrating and empathetic, Rachel Cusk's \u003ci\u003eArlington Park\u003c\/i\u003e is \"a domestic adventure about the perils of modern privilege that is as smartly satirical as it is warmly wise\" (\u003ci\u003eElle\u003c\/i\u003e).","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101624242399,"sku":"9781250828187","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/aWJlcmJ1ejh3QWJuZG90NEhUem9yZz09.webp?v=1781071848"},{"product_id":"the-bradshaw-variations-paperback","title":"The Bradshaw Variations - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Astonishing . . . \u003ci\u003eThe Bradshaw Variations\u003c\/i\u003e is a timely, necessary story.\" --\u003ci\u003eElle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThomas Bradshaw and Tonie Swann are experiencing the classic symptoms of marriage in its middle years: comfortable house, happy-enough daughter, and an eerie sense that life might be happening elsewhere. 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