Coventry
CBC Books | | Posted: July 30, 2019 7:11 PM | Last Updated: August 1, 2019
Rachel Cusk
In Coventry, Rachel Cusk gathers a selection of her nonfiction writings that both offers new insights on the themes at the heart of her fiction and forges a startling critical voice on some of our most urgent personal, social, and artistic questions.
Coventry encompasses memoir, cultural criticism and writing about literature, with pieces on family life, gender, and politics, and on D. H. Lawrence, Françoise Sagan, and Kazuo Ishiguro. Named for an essay Cusk published in Granta —Every so often, for offences actual or hypothetical, my mother and father stop speaking to me. There's a funny phrase for this phenomenon in England: it's called being sent to Coventry, this collection is pure Cusk and essential reading for our age: fearless, unrepentantly erudite and dazzling to behold. (From HarperCollins Canada)
Coventry will be available in Sept. 2019.
Rachel Cusk is also the author of an autofiction trilogy. Two of the books in the series, Transit and Outline, were shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize.
- 40 works of Canadian nonfiction to watch for this fall
- Rachel Cusk on honouring the strangeness of living
- How Rachel Cusk rewrote the writing rules and scored two Scotiabank Gller Prize nominations