'Coventry' Touches On Gender, Self-Definition In Taking Control Of One's Narrative
In her first essay collection, Rachel Cusk writes like someone who has been burned and has reacted not with self-censorship but with a doubling-down on clarity.
Rachel Cusk is a writer who worries more about truth-telling than likability.
Lambasted for her daringly honest memoirs about her feelings as a new mother (and her bitter divorce (, she retreated — if you can call it that — into an audacious hybrid fictional experiment, the trilogy. In its three volumes — and — her impassive alter-ego, a newly divorced British writer named Faye, is a consummate listener who elicits other people's surprisingly confiding stories. The trilogy, a tour de force that expands the parameters of fiction, explores
