Arlington Park - by Rachel Cusk (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>A <i>Sunday Times </i>(London) Top 100 Novel of the Twenty-First Century<br></b><br><b>"No one has written better about what, I suppose, is generally known as female experience . . . All of it is familiar from life but not (thus far) from literature. Everything about <i>Arlington</i> <i>Park</i> is original and fearless." --Francine Prose, <i>Bookforum</i></b> <p/>Set over the course of one rainy day in an ordinary English suburb, <i>Arlington</i><i> Park</i> is a viciously funny portrait of a group of young mothers, each bound to their families, each straining for some kind of independence: Juliet, enraged at the victory of men over women in family life; Amanda, warding off thoughts of death with obsessive housework; Solly, about to give birth to her fourth child; Maisie, struggling to accept provincial life; and Christine, the optimist and host of a dinner party where the neighbors come together. <p/>Penetrating and empathetic, Rachel Cusk's <i>Arlington Park</i> is "a domestic adventure about the perils of modern privilege that is as smartly satirical as it is warmly wise" (<i>Elle</i>).</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"Everything about <i>Arlington</i><i> Park</i> is original and fearless." --<i>Francine Prose, Bookforum</i> <p/>"Hideously funny . . . A novel with a sense of rightness at its core and a narrative intelligence so swift and piercing it can take your breath away." --<i>The Boston Globe</i> <p/>"Her books are smart and deep, telling tales of urban life that are the twenty-first-century version of Austen or Thackeray. . . . Cusk's depictions and evaluations are spot-on, her language smooth and enthralling." --<i>Baltimore Sun</i> <p/>"Cusk's glory is her style, cold and hard and devastatingly specific, empathetic but not sympathetic." --<i>Los Angeles Times</i> <p/>"Cusk's frank acknowledgment of maternal ambivalence is rare and wonderful." --<i>Entertainment Weekly</i> <p/>"Sharp wit and commanding prose." --<i>The New York Times</i> <p/>"Devastating . . . Incisively vivid." --<i>Publishers Weekly</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Rachel Cusk </b>is the author of <i>Second Place</i>; the trilogy <i>Outline</i>, <i>Transit</i>, <i>Kudos</i>; the essay collection <i>Coventry</i>; the memoirs <i>A Life's</i> <i>Work</i>, <i>The Last Supper</i>, <i> </i>and <i>Aftermath</i>; and several other novels: <i>Saving Agnes </i>(winner of the Whitbread Award), <i>The Temporary</i>, <i>The Country Life </i>(winner of the Somerset Maugham Award), <i>The Lucky Ones</i>, <i>In the Fold</i>, <i>Arlington</i> <i>Park</i>, <i> </i>and <i>The Bradshaw Variations</i>.
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