The Country Life

Name: The Country Life
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Rachel Cusk
ISBN: 9780571272099

Rachel Cusk

06/10/2011
Faber & Faber

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Couverture de The Country Life par Rachel Cusk

Résumé

Présentation de l'éditeur Stella 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. What 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? Why is she so reluctant to talk about her past? The Country Life, 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. Revue de presse 'A reminder of just what an impressive writer she's always been.' -- Independent >> 'The Country Life has a moral core, meticulously disguised as comedy. Cusk is a highly interesting, original writer and more unusually she is a joy to read.' -- Helen Dunmore, The Times >> 'Its mixture of P.G. Wodehouse, Cold Comfort Farm and Jane Austen is a pleasure to read.' -- Tibor Fischer, Sunday Express >> 'Cusk writes with the fastidiousness and delightful grace we have come to expect.' --Sue Gaisford, Independent on Sunday 'There are many moments of domestic hilarity around the pool and at the dinner table, and insights into the awkwardness of being alone in a strange place.' --Irish Times Biographie de l'auteur Rachel Cusk was born in 1967 and is the author of six novels: Saving Agnes, which won the Whitbread First Novel Award, The Temporary, The Country Life, which won a Somerset Maugham Award, The Lucky Ones, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel Award, In the Fold and Arlington Park, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize. Her non-fiction book A Life's Work was published to huge acclaim in 2001 and her memoir The Last Supper was published in 2009. Her latest novel is The Bradshaw Variations. In 2003 she was chosen as one of Granta's Best of Young Novelists. She lives in Brighton.