Parade

Author(s): Rachel Cusk

Fiction | Bestsellers

A writer hides. A mother dies. A woman is attacked.


In Parade, Rachel Cusk creates a new documentary voice that operates on the border between fiction and reality. It braids imagined characters with the actual, experience with the philosophical, to altering effect.


Midway through his life, an artist begins to paint upside down.

In Paris, a woman is attacked by a stranger in the street.

A mother dies. A man falls to his death. Couples seek escape in distant lands.

The new novel from one of the most distinctive writers of the age, Parade sets loose a carousel of lives. It surges past the limits of identity, character, and plot, to tell a true story-about art, family, morality, gender, and how we compose ourselves.


 


 


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STAFF REVIEW

In each of Parade's four chapters, two contrasting narratives are made to sit beside one another. These narratives explore the unique role of the female artist, the sometimes prickly bond between mother and daughter, and the difficulty of representing feminitity in art (and this is just the SparkNotes version!)

Cusk's writing is intelligent, barbed and conversational. The resonances between each chapter are complex and intuitive. The final chapter is both beautiful and heartbreaking. Highly recommended.

PLUS: For fellow fans of French director Eric Rohmer, just know that his biography plays a suprisingly big part here!

—Luke from Brunswick Street Bookstore

General Fields

  • : 9780571377954
  • : Faber & Faber, Limited
  • : Faber & Faber, Limited
  • : 30 May 2024
  • : 22.00 cmmm
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Rachel Cusk
  • : Paperback
  • : en
  • : 208
  • : FA