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Coventry : essays / Rachel Cusk.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating PR6053.U825 A6 2019
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Van Pelt Library PR6053.U825 A6 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cusk, Rachel, 1967- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Essays. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women.
- Motherhood.
- Feminism.
- Marriage.
- Essays--21st century.
- Essays.
- Genre:
- Essays.
- Physical Description:
- 248 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First American edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
- Summary:
- The author's first collection of essays about motherhood, marriage, feminism, and art both offers new insights on the themes at the heart of her fiction and forges a startling critical voice on some of our most urgent personal, social, and artistic questions.
- Contents:
- I: Coventry. Driving as metaphor
- Coventry
- On rudeness
- Making home
- Lions on leashes
- Aftermath
- II: A tragic pastime. Louise Bourgeois: suites on fabric
- I am nothing, I am everything
- Shakespeare's sisters
- How to get there
- III: Classics and bestsellers. Edith Wharton: The age of innocence
- D. H. Lawrence: The rainbow
- On Françoise Sagan
- Olivia Manning: The Balkan trilogy
- Eat, pray, love
- Never let me go
- On Natalia Ginzburg.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Sargent fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9780374126773
- 0374126771
- OCLC:
- 1053611132
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