Parade
Author(s): Rachel Cusk
Fiction | 2024 06 June New Release | Staff Reviews
A writer hides. A mother dies. A woman is attacked.
In Parade, Rachel Cusk creates a new documentary voice that operates on the border between fiction and reality. It braids imagined characters with the actual, experience with the philosophical, to altering effect.
Midway through his life, an artist begins to paint upside down.
In Paris, a woman is attacked by a stranger in the street.
A mother dies. A man falls to his death. Couples seek escape in distant lands.
The new novel from one of the most distinctive writers of the age, Parade sets loose a carousel of lives. It surges past the limits of identity, character, and plot, to tell a true story-about art, family, morality, gender, and how we compose ourselves.
STAFF REVIEW
In each of Parade's four chapters, two contrasting narratives are made to sit beside one another. These narratives explore the unique role of the female artist, the sometimes prickly bond between mother and daughter, and the difficulty of representing femininity in art (and that's just the SparkNotes version!).
Cusk's writing is intelligent, barbed and conversational. The resonances between each chapter are complex and intuitive. The final chapter is both beautiful and heartbreaking.
Highly recommended.
—Luke from Brunswick Street Bookstore
Product Information
Praise for the Outline trilogy:
'A work of stunning beauty, deep insight and great originality.' Monica Ali
'A landmark in twenty-first-century English literature.' Observer
'A perfect synthesis of form and content.' Deborah Levy
'Page-turningly enthralling and charged with the power to move.' Tessa Hadley
'Reaches a kind of formal perfection . . . masterly.' Sally Rooney
General Fields
- :
- : Faber & Faber, Limited
- : Faber & Faber, Limited
- : 27 May 2024
- : 22.00 cmmm
- : books
Special Fields
- : Rachel Cusk
- : Paperback
- : en
- : 208