'The 100 best books of the 21st century'. ^ 'Baileys Women's prize for Fiction announce 2015 shortlist'.'Outline by Rachel Cusk review – vignettes from a writing workshop'. ^ Garner, Dwight Sehgal, Parul Szalai, Jennifer (5 March 2018).^ 'Macmillan: Series: Outline Trilogy'.^ 'Outline | Rachel Cusk | Macmillan'.In Second Place, the British novelist trades her signature cool precision for a mood of dreamlike. Outline was voted the 34th best book since 2000 by The Guardian. In 2014, the novelist Rachel Cusk published Outline, the first novel in a trilogy whose style was markedly different from anything that she had previously written. A Rachel Cusk Novel in a Mystical and Enigmatic New Key. The cycle constitutes an artistic breakthrough and a triumph within. It made the 2014 shortlist of the Goldsmiths Prize, the 2015 shortlist of the Folio Prize, and the 2015 shortlist of the Bailey Women's Prize for Fiction. Rachel Cusk’s new novel, Kudos, completes the trilogy she began in 2014 with Outline and extended in 2016 with Transit. Outline was named one of The New York Times Top Ten books of 2015. In every chapter, the writer meets people and engages in long conversations on topics such as love, fiction, marriage, and intimacy. The next day she meets with an Irish colleague from the writing school who also tells her his life story. On the plane, she meets an older Greek bachelor who tells her about his two failed marriages. It was chosen by The New York Times critics as one of the 15 remarkable books by women that are 'shaping the way we read and write fiction in the 21st century.' The New Yorker has called the novel 'autobiographical fiction.' Plot Īn English woman writer flies to Athens to teach a summer writing workshop.

Outline is a novel by Rachel Cusk, the first in a trilogy known as The Outline trilogy, which also contains the novels Transit and Kudos.

2014 (United Kingdom), 2015 (United States)

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