'With the release of Kudos, these three novels can now be appreciated-and will surely be looked back on-as one of the literary masterpieces of our time.' -Sebastian Smee, The Washington Post These are texts, finally, to read and revisit, lean, oracular, irreducible.' -Dustin Illingworth, Los Angeles Times Modern life has rarely been articulated with such compression and epigrammatic precision. Like all great art, this novel consistently eludes us in leaps of grace and daring. 'These crystalline and exquisitely elliptical works have helped define the genre of autofiction. Composed of a series of conversations, it is captivating and incredibly well written.' -Elif Shafak, The Guardian (Best Books of 2018) ' stayed with me long after I had finished it. Cusk’s tools are ambivalence and elusiveness-or, to rearrange James Joyce’s terms of independence: exile, cunning and silence.” -Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal “This important trilogy, then, through its eloquent polyphony of voices and opinions, arrives at an idea of feminist art in opposition to the confessional mode that has long been in ascendance. A stark, modern, adamantine new skyscraper on the literary horizon.' -Dwight Garner, The New York Times ' has that ability, unique to the great performers in every art form, to hold one rapt from the moment she appears. Cusk has triumphed in the completion of this masterly trilogy.' -Sally Rooney, Slate Rarely does a single word of its exceptionally polished prose seem out of place. ' Kudos achieves a kind of formal perfection. In fact, it is a breathtaking success.” -Katy Waldman, The New Yorker a book about failure that is not, in itself, a failure. “ has achieved something both radical and beautiful. Unforgettable.” -Jenny Offill, The New York Times Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vulture ( New York), Bustle, Buzzfeed News, Flavorwire, The Guardian, Financial Times, the Times Literary Supplement, and The New Statesman She is without question one of our most important living writers. In this conclusion to her groundbreaking trilogy, Cusk unflinchingly explores the nature of family and art, justice and love, and the ultimate value of suffering. She begins to identify among the people she meets a tension between truth and representation, a fissure that accrues great dramatic force as Kudos reaches a profound and beautiful climax. Within the rituals of literary culture, Faye finds the human story in disarray amid differing attitudes toward the public performance of the creative persona.

Rachel Cusk, the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of Outline and Transit, completes the transcendent literary trilogy with Kudos, a novel of unsettling power.Ī woman writer visits a Europe in flux, where questions of personal and political identity are rising to the surface and the trauma of change is opening up new possibilities of loss and renewal. New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books of 2018

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