Rachel cusk kudos6/26/2023 ![]() ![]() And these speeches, which seem to unfold naturally, are actually brilliant, perfectly controlled performances through which Faye - quoting and paraphrasing - travels from point to point, creating a narrative where none, in any conventional sense, exists. ![]() Her story instead is composed almost entirely of what the people she encounters have to say, conversations and interviews that mostly become monologues. ![]() The trilogy concluding with “Kudos” seems something of an aftermath itself in that the writer, having had her say in a very big way, has fallen virtually silent. This short, sharp, compulsively readable book completes a trilogy that has won Rachel Cusk her share of kudos - in the original sense, as a character explains, connoting “the broader concept of recognition or acclaim.” Like the earlier volumes, “Outline” and “Transit,” this one features a narrator, Faye, a British writer and divorced mother of two children - like Cusk, whose memoir of her acrimonious divorce, “Aftermath,” earned her, perhaps, more opprobrium than plaudits from British critics. ![]()
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