Over and over, people confess to leaving their partners only to realize that the freedom they imagined isn’t quite what they wanted. A writer refers to a violent mugging that’s left her unsure of who she is a retired investment banker recounts the last living moments of his dog, for whom he feels a greater affinity than any human. Faye, our narrator, is an observational vessel for the lives of others, listening attentively as all manner of strangers, acquaintances, and friends eagerly divulge their life stories. Instead, the novels - Outline (2014), Transit (2016), and now Kudos - follow a deceptively simple formula. There are no complicated plots, interior lives, characterizations, or extended descriptions. In her recent trilogy of autofictional novels, Rachel Cusk includes only what she absolutely must - and she’s decided she can do without quite a lot.
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