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Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Author: Rachel Cusk
ISBN: 9780374610043
Fiction, Short Stories
Parade
by
Rachel Cusk
Parade by
Rachel Cusk
Reviews
"Readers of Cusk's previous fiction will recognize the masterful way she locates specific personal histories within a relatively abstract narrative framework (minimal details of place, time, and chronology) to unsettle the reader's expectations about what fiction can or should do... Cusk's prose is diamond-sharp, as are her insights. Short and intense, crammed with desperately human characters and much food for thought."
Kirkus Reviews
Summary
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.
