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Rachel Cusk

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Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction, Travel

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RACHEL CUSK is the Whitbread Award–winning author of two memoirs, including The Last Supper, and seven novels, including Arlington Park, Saving Agnes, The Temporary, The Country Life, and The Lucky Ones. She lives in Brighton, England.

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Average rating: 3.07 · 1,548 ratings · 375 reviews · 21 distinct works

	Arlington Park 2.77 avg rating — 503 ratings — published 2006 — 16 editions	My rating:
	The Country Life 3.50 avg rating — 256 ratings — published 1997 — 7 editions	My rating:
	A Life's Work: On Becoming a Mother 3.42 avg rating — 209 ratings — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Lucky Ones 2.95 avg rating — 138 ratings — published 2003 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Saving Agnes 2.82 avg rating — 108 ratings — published 1993 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Bradshaw Variations 3.03 avg rating — 123 ratings — published 2009 — 14 editions	My rating:
	The Last Supper: A Summer in Italy 3.09 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 2009 — 8 editions	My rating:
	In the Fold 2.79 avg rating — 85 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Temporary 3.44 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2012	My rating:

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“She wondered whether the books she loved consoled her precisely because they were the manifestations of her own isolation.”
― Rachel Cusk, Arlington Park

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“From the distance of England the Italian cuisine seems to be all things to all people. It does not expect you to bend to its rigor, like the French. It is not rough and boisterous like the Spanish. It is soft and feminine and is adored in the highest circles, though it is not above a degree of prostitution too. But first and foremost it is kind to children. Consider the pizza: all around the world the pizza has come to represent the deepest form of security known to the human palate. It is like a smiling face: it assuages the fear of complexity by showing everything on its surface.”
― Rachel Cusk

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“We have possessed virtually nothing in our life in Italy. In England, I became increasingly sure that to possess something was to arrest your knowledge of it, because the thing itself is no longer free. For me the pain of knowledge is a tonic, an antidote to the pall of possession. But there is an element of death in knowledge (...) Knowledge is what remains to the human mind once the possession has been lost. It is the reliquary of the vanished object. Its presence is painful, because it signifies that what was known is no longer there.”
― Rachel Cusk

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