Rachel Cusk
1) Second place
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award
The Country Life, Rachel Cusk's third novel, is a rich and subtle story about embarrassment, awkwardness, and being alone; about families, or the lack of them; and about love in some peculiar guises.
"A brilliant oxymoron—a serious farce . . . Cusk's ability to keep us interested in innumerable human collisions is
5) Outline
6) Transit
7) Kudos
Arlington Park, a modern-day English suburb very much like its American counterparts, is a place devoted to the profitable ordinariness of life. Amidst its leafy avenues and comfortable houses, its residents live out the dubious accomplishments of civilization: material prosperity, personal freedom, and moral indifference. In Arlington Park, men work, women look after children, and people generally do what's expected of them. It's a world awash
...13) Fortunes of War
A BBC miniseries starring Emma Thompson and Kenneth Branagh
A spellbinding chronicle of a marriage and a panoramic account of Eastern Europe during WWII—the “finest fictional record of the war produced by a British writer” (Anthony Burgess)
The Balkan Trilogy is the story of a marriage and of a war,...
14) The rainbow
A novel which chronicles the lines of three generations of the Brangwen family and the emergence of modern England.
Set between the 1840s and the early years of the twentieth century The Rainbow tells the story of three generations of the Brangwen family, ancient occupiers of Marsh Farm, Nottinghamshire. Through courting, pregnancy, marriage and defiance Lawrence explores love and the conflicts it brings.
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