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Zusatztext “[Cusk’s] intelligence and emotional honesty give a sense of having experienced, rather than read, this book…extraordinary.” Informationen zum Autor Rachel Cusk is the author of six novels and one memoir. The first, Saving Agnes , won the Whitbread First Novel Award. Other works include The Country Life , which won a Somerset Maugham Award, The Lucky Ones , which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize, In the Fold , and Arlington Park , which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. In 2003 she was nominated by Granta magazine as one of 20 'Best of Young British Novelists'. Klappentext A young pregnant mother wrestles with an utterly changed life; a new father searches for a sign of the man he used to be; a daughter yearns for a lost childhood; and a mother reaches out in bewilderment to a child she can't fully understand. A rare novel that illuminates "the bustling concourses of life" without sacrificing emotional depth and complexity, The Lucky Ones confirms Rachel Cusk's place among our most incisive writers. Zusammenfassung "A small masterwork, a bright gem that illuminates the extent of Rachel Cusk’s considerable abilities.” — Salon “So sharply written I forgot where I was as I was reading it . . . touches greatness in its psychological incisiveness . . . . Cusk has brought her writing to a new level.” — New York Times Book Review Demonstrating a rare gift for illuminating “the bustling concourses of life” without sacrificing emotional depth and complexity, this rare and stunning novel confirms Rachel Cusk’s place among our most incisive and masterful writers. The Lucky Ones is a profound evocation of family and the magnetic bonds that can attract or repel. The five people whose lives converge here are also haunted by family: the longing for love, the struggle to connect. Here, a young pregnant mother wrestles with an utterly changed life; a new father sifts for a sign of the man he used to be; a daughter searches for a lost childhood; and a mother reaches out in bewilderment to a child who is growing away from her. ...
