Outline

Outline is a novel in ten conversations. Spare and lucid, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing over an oppressively hot summer in Athens. She leads her students in storytelling exercises. She meets other visiting writers for dinner. She goes swimming in the Ionian Sea with her...

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1. Verfasser: Cusk, Rachel 1967- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Picador Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016
Ausgabe:First Picador edition
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Zusammenfassung:Outline is a novel in ten conversations. Spare and lucid, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing over an oppressively hot summer in Athens. She leads her students in storytelling exercises. She meets other visiting writers for dinner. She goes swimming in the Ionian Sea with her neighbor from the plane. The people she encounters speak volubly about themselves: their fantasies, anxieties, pet theories, regrets, and longings. And through these disclosures, a portrait of the narrator is drawn by contrast, a portrait of a woman learning to face a great loss
Beschreibung:249 Seiten 21 cm
ISBN:9781250081544