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Please send all press inquiries (photo, video, interviews, audio-recording, etc.) at least 24-hours before the day of the program to Sara Beth Joren at For all other inquiries, please contact views and opinions expressed herein are those of the speaker(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of The New York Public Library. Buy tickets for six or more events and save 20%.Īll proceeds from tickets go toward supporting programming at The New York Public Library.īecome a Friend of the Library to save up to 20% on general admission tickets and subscriptions, get access to presales, plus discounts at The Library’s Shop and Amy’s Bread Café in the Stephen A. Interested in coming to more than one event? Think ahead, and save with subscription packs. Buy tickets for three to five events and save 15%. She will be joined in conversation by author and translator Jenny McPhee. Through a series of conversations that read almost as oral histories, Cusk reveals a panoply of people and places who cross Faye’s path and shape her world.Īs the final volume makes its paperback debut, Cusk looks back at the trilogy as a whole to discuss her unique brand of suspense and storytelling. In her groundbreaking trilogy- Outline, Transit, and Kudos-Cusk explores the nature of family, art, love, and suffering as her protagonist, a writer named Faye, encounters friends and strangers in the course of her daily life. The best-selling British author Rachel Cusk is credited for reinventing the form of the novel, hooking readers with an inimitable voice, and unconventional sense of plot. She is without question one of our most important living writers.A pioneer of fiction speaks about her characters and herself. In this conclusion to her groundbreaking trilogy, Cusk unflinchingly explores the nature of family and art, justice and love, and the ultimate value of suffering.

The books take the form of a succession of monologues delivered not by the protagonist, but by the people she encounters. She begins to identify among the people she meets a tension between truth and representation, a fissure that accrues great dramatic force as Kudos reaches a profound and beautiful climax. Her most recent trilogy Outline, Transit, and Kudos embodies a new, and distinctive style for Cusk.

Within the rituals of literary culture, Faye finds the human story in disarray amid differing attitudes toward the public performance of the creative persona. Rachel Cusk, the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of Outline and Transit, completes the transcendent literary trilogy with Kudos, a novel of unsettling power.Ī woman writer visits a Europe in flux, where questions of personal and political identity are rising to the surface and the trauma of change is opening up new possibilities of loss and renewal.

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