{"product_id":"9780374712365","title":"Outline","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA luminous, powerful novel that establishes Rachel Cusk as one of the finest writers in the English language\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA man and a woman are seated next to each other on a plane. They get to talking—about their destination, their careers, their families. Grievances are aired, family tragedies discussed, marriages and divorces analyzed. An intimacy is established as two strangers contrast their own fictions about their lives.\u003cbr\u003e     Rachel Cusk's \u003ci\u003eOutline\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel in ten conversations. Spare and stark, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing during one oppressively hot summer in Athens. She leads her students in storytelling exercises. She meets other visiting writers for dinner and discourse. She goes swimming in the Ionian Sea with her neighbor from the plane. The people she encounters speak volubly about themselves: their fantasies, anxieties, pet theories, regrets, and longings. And through these disclosures, a portrait of the narrator is drawn by contrast, a portrait of a woman learning to face a great loss.\u003cbr\u003e     \u003ci\u003eOutline\u003c\/i\u003e takes a hard look at the things that are hardest to speak about. It brilliantly captures conversations, investigates people's motivations for storytelling, and questions their ability to ever do so honestly or unselfishly. In doing so it bares the deepest impulses behind the craft of fiction writing. This is Rachel Cusk's finest work yet, and one of the most startling, brilliant, original novels of recent years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Finalist for the Folio Prize, the Goldsmiths Prize, the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction\u003cbr\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times'\u003c\/i\u003e Top Ten Books of the Year\u003cbr\u003eNamed a A\u003ci\u003e New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book and a Best Book of the Year by \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e Vogue, NPR, The Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Independent\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e Glamour,\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e The Globe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47104141099248,"sku":"9780374712365","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780374712365_p0.jpg?v=1763691038","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780374712365","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}