Рейчел Каск – лучшие книги

Роман современной канадско-британской писательницы Рейчел Каск (род. 1968), собравший множество премий, состоит из десяти встреч и разговоров. Нестерпимо жарким летом в Афинах главная героиня, известная романистка, читает курс creative writing. Ее новыми знакомыми и собеседниками становятся соседи, студенты, преподаватели, которые охотно говорят о себе — делятся своими убеждениями, мечтами, фантазиями, тревогами и сожалениями. На фоне их историй словно бы по контрасту вырисовывается портрет повествовательницы — женщины, которая учится жить с сознанием большой потери. «Контур» — первый роман трилогии, изменившей представления об этой традиционной литературной форме и значительно расширившей границы современной литературы. Впервые на русском.

В романе «Транзит» Рейчел Каск глубже погружается в темы, впервые затронутые в снискавшем признание «Контуре», и предлагает читателю глубокие и трогательные размышления о детстве и судьбе, ценности страдания, моральных проблемах личной ответственности и тайне перемен. Во второй книге своей лаконичной и вместе с тем эпической трилогии Каск описывает глубокие жизненные переживания, трудности на пороге серьезных изменений. Она с тревожащей сдержанностью и честностью улавливает стремление одновременно жить и бежать от жизни, а также мучительную двойственность, пробуждающую наше желание чувствовать себя реальными.

Новая книга Рейчел Каск, обладательницы множества литературных премий, завершает ломающую литературный канон трилогию, начатую романами «Контур» и «Транзит». Каск исследует природу семьи и искусства, справедливости, любви и страдания. Ее героиня Фэй приезжает в бурно меняющуюся Европу, где остро обсуждаются вопросы личной и политической идентичности. Сталкиваясь с ритуалами литературного мира, она обнаруживает, что среди разнящихся представлений о публичном поведении творческой личности не остается места для истории реального человека. В людях, с которыми общается Фэй, ей видится напряжение между истиной и публичным образом — трещина, которая концентрирует в себе огромную драматическую силу по мере того, как «Kudos» движется к красивой и глубокой кульминации.

"Второе место" - первый после прогремевшей экспериментальной трилогии "Контур" роман канадско-британской писательницы Рейчел Каск (род. 1967), вдохновленный мемуарами меценатки и покровительницы искусства Мэйбл Додж Лухан "Лоренцо в Таосе" о визите Д. Г. Лоуренса в Мексику в 1920-х, продолжает линию размывания границы между художественным и документальным. Главная героиня приглашает известного художника погостить в отдаленном месте на побережье, где она живет со своей семьей. Страстно увлеченная его картинами, она думает, что видение художника сможет проникнуть в тайну, лежащую в основе ее жизни. Но с наступлением долгого и засушливого лета…

Book DescriptionAs a college student Michael visited Egypt Hill, the curiously named estate of his roommate+s family, for a garden party, and in one afternoon met a host of eccentric characters who have stayed with him ever since. Years later he

In 2003, Rachel Cusk published A Life's Work, her provocative and startlingly funny memoir of the cataclysm of motherhood, and launched debates that continue to this day. Now, in her most relevant work yet, Cusk offers an intimate exploration of divorce and its tremendous impact on the lives of women―and discovers opportunity as well as pain.

An unflinching chronicle of the upheaval of her own recent separation, Aftermath is also a vivid study of divorce's complex place in our society. With candor as fearless as it is affecting, Rachel Cusk maps a transformative chapter of her life with wit and acuity, and in a way that will help us understand our own.

When first published in 2001, it divided female critics and readers. One famous columnist wrote a piece demanding that Cusk's children were taken into care, that was she was unfit to look after them. Oprah Winfrey invited her on the show to defend herself and the book as protests grew about the its honest, gritty account of the misery of those early months. It is a seminal, stand-out book on the complications of being an ambivalent mum in an age of white-washed, Annabel Karmel'd new families.

Juliet is enraged at the victory of men over women in family life. Amanda is warding off thoughts of death with obsessive housework. Solly is confronting her own buried femininity in the person of her Italian lodger. Maisie despairs at the inevitability with which beauty is destroyed. And Christine's troubled, hilarious spirit presides over Arlington Park and the way of life it represents.

Rachel Cusk's sixth novel is her best yet. Full of compassion and wit, she writes about the domestic lives, private thoughts and fears of a group of remarkable and instantly recognisable women.

M, romancière entre deux âges, s'est isolée du monde en s'installant avec son second mari au bord d'une côte océanique spectaculaire. Sur sa propriété baignée d'une lumière splendide et entourée de marais, le couple possède une dépendance soigneusement reconvertie en résidence d'artistes. M n'a qu'un rêve : y accueillir un jour L, un peintre à la renommée mondiale, qu'elle admire. Quand il finit par accepter son invitation, M jubile. Cependant, elle déchante vite car L n'arrive pas seul - une ravissante jeune femme est à son bras. Entre-temps, la fille de M et son compagnon ont également débarqué. Les trois couples doivent alors cohabiter dans ce cadre certes enchanteur, mais qui va devenir le théâtre de multiples tensions.

Winner of the Whitbread Prize for Best First Novel

Agnes Day is mildly discontent. As a child, she never wanted to be an Agnes—she wanted to be a pleasing Grace. Alas, she remained the terminally middle class, hopelessly romantic Agnes. Now she's living with her two best friends in London and working at a trade magazine. Life and love seem to go on without her. Not only does she not know how to get back into the game, she isn't even sure what the game is. But she gives a good performance—until she learns that her roommates and her boyfriend are keeping secrets from her, and that her boss is quitting and leaving her in charge. In great despair, she decides to make it her business to set things straight. Saving Agnes is a perceptive, fresh, and honest novel that has delighted readers and critics on both sides of the Atlantic.

Stella Benson, eager to change her life, answers a classified ad for an au pair and arrives in a tiny Sussex village that's home to a family slightly larger than life. What drove her to leave home, job, and life in London for such rural ignominy? Why has she severed all ties with her family? Why is she so reluctant to discuss her past? And who, exactly, is Edward?

Since quitting work to look after his eight-year-old daughter, Alexa, Thomas Bradshaw has found solace and grace in his daily piano study. His pursuit of a more artistic way of life shocks and irritates his parents and in-laws. Why has he swapped roles with Tonie Swann, his intense, intellectual wife, who has accepted a demanding full-time job? How can this be good for Alexa?

Tonie is increasingly seduced away from domestic life by the harder, headier world of work, where long-forgotten memories of ambition are awakened. She soon finds herself outside their tight family circle, alive to previously unimaginable possibilities. Over the course of a year full of crisis and revelation, we follow the fortunes of Tonie, Thomas, and his brothers and their families: Howard, the successful, indulgent brother, and his gregarious wife, Claudia; and Leo, lacking in confidence and propped up by Susie, his sharp-tongued, heavy-drinking wife. At the head of the family, the aging Bradshaw parents descend on their children to question and undermine them.

The Bradshaw Variations reveals how our choices, our loves, and the family life we build will always be an echo—a variation—of a theme played out in our own childhood. This masterful and often shockingly funny novel, Rachel Cusk’s seventh, shows a prizewinning writer at the height of her powers.

Ralph Loman works in an unsatisfying job, for a free London newspaper, when Francine Snaith, a temporary secretary for a corporate finance firm, unexpectedly crosses his path at a party. Her beauty ignites a blaze of excitement in his troubled heart. But Francine is ravenous for attention, driven by a thirst for conquest, and when Ralph tries politely to extricate himself, he finds he is bound by chains of consequence from which it seems there is no escape. The Temporary paints a merciless portrait of the cut and thrust of modern romance, work and life.

Casting off a northern winter and an orderly life, a family decides to sell everything and go to Italy to search for art and its meanings, for freedom from routine, for a different path into the future. The award-winning writer Rachel Cusk describes a three-month journey around the Italy of Raphael and rented villas, of the Piero della Francesca trail and the tourist furnace of Amalfi, of soccer and the simple glories of pasta and gelato. With her husband and two children, Cusk uncovers the mystery of a foreign language, the perils and pleasures of unbelonging, and the startling thrill of discovery -- at once historic and intimate.

Both sharp and humane in its exploration of the desire to travel and to escape, of art and its inspirations, of beauty and ugliness, and of the challenge of balancing domestic life with creativity, The Last Supper is an astonishing memoir.