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Item Details
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AFTERMATH
LIFE AFTER MARRIAGE |
| By: |
Rachel Cusk |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£12.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0571277659 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780571277650 |
| Publisher: |
FABER & FABER |
| Pub. date: |
1 March, 2012 |
| Pages: |
160 |
| Description: |
In the winter of 2009, the author's marriage of ten years came to an end. This book chronicles this perilous journey as the author redefines herself as a single woman and creates a new version of family life for her daughters. |
| Synopsis: |
In the winter of 2009, Rachel Cusk's marriage of ten years came to an end. In the months that followed, life as she had known it came apart, "like a jigsaw dismantled into a heap of broken-edged pieces". Aftermath chronicles this perilous journey as the author redefines herself as a single woman and creates a new version of family life for her daughters. She discovers previously unknown strengths and freedoms but also finds herself suddenly vulnerable to outsiders, unwelcome advice, social displacement and the absence of a clear authority. "I can't remember what it feels like to be at ease. This ceaseless effort to manufacture normality is a kind of forger's art, so laborious compared with the facility that created the original." The pressure to reconstruct a 'normal' life for her daughters competes with the sense that nothing feels normal at all. Aftermathis a masterly work in which the author, at her most candid and rigorous, charts the largely unwritten journey back to order from the chaos that is left when a family breaks apart. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Faber & Faber |
| Prizes: |
Short-listed for PEN/Ackerley Prize 2013 |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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