Coventry

Kurztext / Annotation

Encompassing memoir and cultural criticism, with pieces on gender, politics and writing, this collection of essays is essential reading for our age: fearless, unrepentantly erudite, both startling and rewarding to behold. It grants its readers a rare opportunity to see a mind at work that will influence literature for time to come.

Langtext

Author of the Booker-longlisted novel Second Place

'Cements her reputation as one of the most fierce and elegant chroniclers of how we live now.' Stephanie Merritt, Observer

Coventry is a collection of essays about choices, womanhood and art. Encompassing memoir and cultural and literary criticism, with pieces on gender, politics and writers such as D. H. Lawrence, Olivia Manning and Natalia Ginzburg, it is essential reading for our age: fearless, unrepentantly erudite, both startling and rewarding to behold.

Biografische Anmerkung zu den Verfassern

Rachel Cusk is the author of the Outline trilogy, the memoirs A Life's Work and Aftermath, and several other works of fiction and non-fiction. She is a Guggenheim fellow. She lives in Paris.

• Rachel Cusk
• Outline
• Transit
• Kudos
• Faye
• Aftermath
• A Life's Work
• Medea
• The Last Supper
• Karl Ove Knausgård
• Granta
• three women lisa taddeo
• Ali Smith Spring
• Isabella Hammad
• Deborah Levy
• Milkman
• The Years
• Sally Rooney Normal People
• Ordinary People