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Rachel Cusk


Born
in Toronto, Canada
February 08, 1967

Genre
Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction, Travel


Rachel Cusk was born in Canada, and spent some of her childhood in Los Angeles, before her family returned to England, in 1974, when Cusk was 8 years old. She read English at New College, Oxford.

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 has won and been shortlisted for numerous prizes: her most recent novel, Outline (2014), was shortlisted for the Folio Prize, the Goldsmith's Prize and the Bailey's prize, and longlisted for Canada's Giller Prize. In 2003, Rachel Cusk was nominated by Granta magazine as one of 20 'Best of Young British Novelists'

She lives in Brighton, England. ...more

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Average rating: 3.74 · 145,239 ratings · 17,833 reviews · 55 distinct works • Similar authors
Outline
3.68 avg rating — 57,516 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions
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Second Place
3.69 avg rating — 24,205 ratings — published 2021 — 53 editions
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Transit
3.97 avg rating — 20,658 ratings — published 2016 — 72 editions
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Kudos
3.89 avg rating — 14,130 ratings — published 2018 — 57 editions
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A Life's Work: On Becoming ...
3.93 avg rating — 5,872 ratings — published 2001 — 40 editions
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Aftermath: On Marriage and ...
3.66 avg rating — 3,391 ratings — published 2012 — 40 editions
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Coventry: Essays
3.73 avg rating — 3,121 ratings — published 2019 — 21 editions
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Arlington Park
3.20 avg rating — 3,120 ratings — published 2006 — 46 editions
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The Country Life
3.73 avg rating — 1,988 ratings — published 1997 — 18 editions
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Parade
3.67 avg rating — 2,022 ratings — published 2024 — 16 editions
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“As it happened, I was no longer interested in literature as a form of snobbery or even self-definition. I had no desire to prove that one book was better than another; in fact, if I read something I admired, I found myself increasingly disinclined to mention it at all. What I knew personally to be true had come to seem unrelated to the process of persuading others. I did not, any longer, want to persuade anyone of anything.”
― Rachel Cusk, Outline
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“What Ryan had learned from this is that your failures keep returning to you, while your successes are something you always have to convince yourself of.”
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“Sometimes it has seemed to me that life is a series of punishments for such moments of unawareness, that one forges one’s own destiny by what one doesn’t notice or feel compassion for; that what you don’t know and don’t make the effort to understand will become the very thing you are forced into knowledge of.”
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