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Arlington Park

Arlington Park

by RachelCusk (Author)

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    Hardcover 2006

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    Hardcover 2006

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Synopsis

Amid the leafy avenues and comfortable houses, the residents of Arlington park live out the dubious accomplishments of civilisation: material prosperity, personal freedom, and moral indifference. Men work, women look after children, and people generally do what's expected of them. Set over the course of a single rainy day, this novel moves from one household to another, and through the passing hours conducts a deep examination of its characters' lives: of Juliet, enranged at the victory of men over women in family life; of Amanda, warding off thoughts of death with obsessive housework; of Solly, who confronts her own buried femininity in the person of her Italian lodger; of Maisie, despairing at the inevitability with which beauty is destroyed; and of Christine, whose troubled, hilarious spirit presides over Arlington Park and the way of life it represents.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 256
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 07 Sep 2006
ISBN 10: 057122847X
ISBN 13: 9780571228478
Book Overview: Arlington Park by Rachel Cusk: from one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists comes this extraordinary novel that takes us behind the closed doors of an affluent suburb in England, into the hearts and minds of the women who are trying to survive there.
 Prizes: Shortlisted for Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007.

Media Reviews
Everything about Arlington Park is original and fearless. --Francine Prose, Bookforum Hideously funny . . . A novel with a sense of rightness at its core and a narrative intelligence so swift and piercing it can take your breath away. --The Boston Globe Her books are smart and deep, telling tales of urban life that are the twenty-first-century version of Austen or Thackeray. . . . Cusk's depictions and evaluations are spot-on, her language smooth and enthralling. -- Baltimore Sun Cusk's glory is her style, cold and hard and devastatingly specific, empathetic but not sympathetic. -- Los Angeles Times Cusk's frank acknowledgment of maternal ambivalence is rare and wonderful. -- Entertainment Weekly Sharp wit and commanding prose. -- The New York Times Devastating . . . Incisively vivid. -- Publishers Weekly
Author Bio
Rachel Cusk was born in 1967 and is the author of five previous novels: Saving Agnes, which won the Whitbread First Novel Award, The Temporary, The Country Life, which won a Somerset Maugham Award and The Lucky Ones, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel Award and In The Fold. Her non-fiction book A Life's Work was published to huge acclaim in 2001. In 2003 she was chosen as one of Granta's Best of Young Novelists. She lives in Bristol.