Parade -- Rachel Cusk, Hardcover

From Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, comes this startling, exhilarating novel that once again expands the notion of what fiction can be and do.

Midway through his life, the artist G begins to paint upside down. Eventually, he paints his wife upside down. He also makes her ugly. The paintings are a great success.

In Paris, a woman is attacked by a stranger in the street. Her attacker flees, but not before turning around to contemplate her victim, like an artist stepping back from a canvas.

At the age of twenty-two, the painter G leaves home for a new life in another country, far from the disapproval of her parents. Her paintings attract the disapproval of the man she later marries.

When a mother dies, her children confront her legacy: the stories she told, the roles she assigned to them, the ways she withheld her love. Her death is a kind of freedom.

Parade is a novel that demolishes the conventions of storytelling. It surges past the limits of identity, character, and plot to tell the story of G, an artist whose life contains many lives. Rachel Cusk is a writer and visionary like no other, who turns language upside down to show us our world as it really is.

Author: Rachel Cusk
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 06/18/2024
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 8.52h x 5.63w x 0.76d
ISBN: 9780374610043

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 01/01/2024 pg. 4
Publishers Weekly 04/01/2024
Kirkus Reviews 04/01/2024
Booklist 05/01/2024 pg. 20
Library Journal 05/24/2024 pg. 1

About the Author
Rachel Cusk is the author of Second Place, the Outline trilogy, the memoirs A Life's Work and Aftermath, and several other works of fiction and nonfiction. She is a Guggenheim Fellow. She lives in Paris.