The brilliance of
Cusk's experiment with truth effectively blurs the line between author and narrator, private and public.
Cusk has an incredible ability to mine universal truths from everyday mundanity.
In A Life's Work: On Becoming a Mother, Rachel
Cusk writes that she "arrived at motherhood shocked and unprepared." She felt stunned by how the birth of a child, like a boulder suddenly blocking a roadway, displaced her life's path into a disorienting universe, frozen with dread and isolation.
"Analysis is a slow process, but we're starting to see trends." For example,
cusk eels' call levels reflect their activity cycles--higher at night, lower by day, and seasonal, as the fish migrate away in autumn.
But the difference between cooking cod and dogfish and wolffish and monkfish and pollock and haddock and hake and
cusk is not all that different.
On this basis Schoene suggests that questions of cosmopolitanism are addressed, though not necessarily resolved, in the domestic novels of Ian McEwan, Rachel
Cusk, and Jon McGregor.
In one of her previous memoirs, A Life's Work, Rachel
Cusk laid bare the conflicting feelings of new motherhood.
galathea is an ophidiid (
cusk eel) and was trawled from the Puerto Rico Trench from a depth of 8370 m in 1970.
As a final illustration of the equivocal nature of the work involved in 'containing' envious affect by the 'values of feminism', and how complex is the task of discerning its subjectively and objectively ascribed perceptions of inequality, we might turn to a recent depiction of contemporary female envy in a novel by British author Rachel
Cusk. In the figure of Juliet, who appears in the first chapter of
Cusk's Arlington Park (2006), we find a masterful study of envious discontent.
Byatt, Rachel
Cusk, Janice Galloway, Caroline Moorehead, Francine Prose, and Eudora Welty; and poetry by Gillian Allnutt, Linda Gregerson, Sadaf Halai, and Selima Mill.
While Women in Love is a reissue of Vintage's 2008 edition, The Rainbow is a new title (with an introduction by Rachel
Cusk) as is Lady Chatterley's Lover (with an introduction by Blake Morrison).
Rachel
Cusk's ARLINGTON PARK (9781846321610, $92.75) enjoys Jilly Bond's excellent and evocative voice as it tells of residents who lead a fine life in Arlington Park, of material prosperity and moral indifference.
