[Cusk's] account is extraordinary for its absence of polemic: she writes with the intelligence, wit, and keen eye for detail demanded by any kind of reporting, and the result is a book on the subject curiously unlike any other. --The New Yorker
[ A Life's Work] is as compulsive as a thriller although its plot (pregnancy, birth, colic, sleepless nights) is - naturally - a shambles and its cast tiny and undistinguished (mother, father, baby, doctor, health visitor, a few friends). Its time scheme is wild - vertiginously unchronological, as if to convey the disorientation of fatigue: babies destroy all sense of conventional time . . . She describes the book as a letter to women 'in the hope that they find some companionship in my experience'. No mother could fail to be interested and moved. Most will recognise themselves. --Kate Kellaway, The Guardian
Rachel Cusk writes about new motherhood with an honesty and clarity that makes this memoir feel almost illicit. Sleepless nights, yes; colic, yes; but also a raw, frantic love for her firstborn daughter that she depicts and dissects with both rigor and amazement. --Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times Book Review
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A LIFE'S WORK
AUTOR/A
CUSK, RACHEL
Rachel Cusk nació en Canadá en 1967, pero desde 1974 vive en Inglaterra. Es autora de nueve novelas y tres libros de memorias. Entre su obra destacan las novelas La salvación de Agnes (1993, ganadora del Premio Whitbread a la primera novela), The Country Life (1997, ganadora del premio Somerset Maugham), Arlington Park (2006) y A contraluz (2014, finalista de los premios Folio, Goldsmiths, Baileys, Giller Prize y del Canadian Governor General?s Award,) y los libros autobiográficos A Life?s Work (2001) sobre la maternidad y Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation (2012). A contraluz (2014; Libros del Asteroide 2016) es la primera de una serie de tres novelas con la misma protagonista que la han consolidado como una de las escritoras más brillantes de la literatura inglesa actual. La segunda es Tránsito (2016; Libros del Asteroide, 2017) y la tercera, Kudos (2018).