An Epic Conversation Draws To A Close In 'Kudos'
Rachel Cusk's trilogy about a peripatetic writer and her many conversational partners winds up with Kudos. The books are essentially plotless — but there's plenty of joy to be found just in talk.
Here's one advantage to discussing Rachel Cusk's trilogy of conversational novels: Because they're essentially plotless, there's little need to worry about spoiler alerts. The surprises and rewards of reading these books comes not from finding out what happens, but from getting pulled deep into their labyrinthine tête-à-têtes. The third volume, begins the same way that the first, , did three years ago: With a surprisingly revealing conversation between the narrator, a British writer named Faye headed to a literary festival in
