Second Place
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3.9
Rachel Cusk
A haunting fable of art, family, and fate from the author of the Outline trilogy.A woman invites a famous artist to use her guesthouse in the remote coastal landscape where she lives with her family. Powerfully drawn to his paintings, she believes his vision might penetrate the mystery at the center of her life. But as a long, dry summer sets in, his provocative presence itself becomes an enigma—and disrupts the calm of her secluded household.Second Place, Rachel Cusk’s electrifying new novel, is a study of female fate and male privilege, the geometries of human relationships, and the moral questions that animate our lives. It reminds us of art’s capacity to uplift—and to destroy.
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Author
Rachel Cusk
Pages
192
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published Date
2021-05-04
ISBN
0374720797 9780374720797
Ratings
Google: 5
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"I'm honestly a bit unsure whether I did like this or not. It's a lot of introspection and narrated in the form of a letter to some one whom we never learn much about. My takeaway was that the story seems to be about misogyny and our main character seems to want to feel free within her life and ruminates about it a lot. I'm not sure what this story is trying to say but some passages I wanted to write down because of how good they were and others felt like the author tried very hard to recreate other little moments of genius. The dialogue is clunky and strange. It teeters in and out of pretentiousness but overall I don't regret reading it and will likely read more Rachel Cusk."
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