Arlington Park, a modern-day English suburb, is a place devoted to the
profitable ordinariness of life. Amidst its leafy avenues and
comfortable houses, its residents live out the dubious accomplishments
of civilisation: material prosperity, personal freedom, and moral
indifference. For all that, Arlington Park is strikingly conventional.
Men work, women look after children, and people generally do what's
expected of them. Theirs is a world awash with contentment but empty
of belief, and riven with strange anxieties.
Set over the course of a single rainy day, the novel moves from one
household to another, and through the passing hours conducts a deep
examination of its characters' lives: of Juliet, enraged at the
victory of men over women in family life; of Amanda, warding off
thoughts of death with obsessive housework; of Solly, who confronts
her own buried femininity in the person of her Italian lodger; of
Maisie, despairing at the inevitability with which beauty is
destroyed; and of Christine, whose troubled, hilarious spirit presides
over Arlington Park and the way of life it represents.
Rachel Cusk's sixth novel is her best yet. Full of compassion and wit,
each page laden with truth, she writes about her characters' domestic
lives, their private thoughts and fears with an intelligence and
insight that will leave readers reeling.
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ISBN
9780571267187
Publisert
2015
Utgiver
Vendor
Faber & Faber
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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