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Second Place (novel)
''Second Place'' is a 2021 novel by Rachel Cusk. Premise A female narrator, M, invites a famous painter, L, to use her guesthouse on the English coast marshlands where she lives with her family. It is inspired by Mabel Dodge Luhan's 1932 memoir ''Lorenzo in Taos'', about the writer D. H. Lawrence's early 1920s sojourn in Taos, New Mexico. Reception ''Second Place'' received favourable reviews, with a cumulative "Positive" rating at the review aggregator website Book Marks, based on 40 book reviews from mainstream literary critics. In its starred review, ''Kirkus Reviews'' wrote that Cusk's "brilliant prose and piercing insights convey a dark but compelling view of human nature." ''Publishers Weekly'', in its starred review, wrote, "There is the erudition of the author's ''Outline'' trilogy here, but with a tightly contained dramatic narrative." The novel was longlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize, and shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for English-language fictio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachel Cusk
Rachel Cusk (born 8 February 1967) is a British novelist and writer. Childhood and education Cusk was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Saskatoon to British people, British parents in 1967, the second of four children with an older sister and two younger brothers, and spent much of her early childhood in Los Angeles. She moved to her parents' native Britain in 1974, settling in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. She comes from a wealthy Catholic family, and was educated at St Mary's School, Cambridge, St Mary's Convent in Cambridge. She studied English at New College, Oxford. Career Cusk has written eleven novels, four works of non-fiction, and adapted ''Medea (play), Medea'' for the London theatre Almeida Theatre, Almeida. She published her first novel, ''Saving Agnes'' in 1993 which received the 1993 Whitbread Awards, Whitbread First Novel Award. Its themes of femininity and social satire remained central to her work over the next decade. In responding to the formal problems of the no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |