![]() ![]() ![]() This line continues to be cut throughout the narrators stay in Athens, crossing strangers and students alike, allowing tales of love, loss, family and success to pour forth onto the page. Opening the cut, the narrator takes an astute eye to the bias that lives within autobiography and shines a light into the very heart of ones connection to their own perceived reality. Her seat mate divulges the flourish and eventual demise of his first two marriages at length, the narrator, although initially passive, begins to draw the line of dissection down the core of this novel. Beginning unnamed and almost alarmingly space of description, the narrator begins her conversational journey on the London - Athens flight. In the wake of a life upheaval and dissolution of her marriage, our narrator, a novelist, travels to Greece to teach a week long writing workshop. Words: Ethan Potter Set against the shimmering & sweltering heat of Summer in Athens, Rachel Cusk’s 2014 novel Outline (the first book in a trilogy of stories) presents a series of complex meditations on reality, set amongst a familiar circumstance - conversation. ![]()
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