In his brilliant third novel, An Absent Mind, Eric Rill chronicles the devastating decline of a man with Alzheimer’s and how each family member reacts to the crippling disease that affects over thirty-five million people worldwide.
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In this epic, critically acclaimed tour de force, Adam Johnson provides a riveting portrait of a world rife with hunger, corruption, and casual cruelty but also camaraderie, stolen moments of beauty, and love.
In this epic, critically acclaimed tour de force, Adam Johnson provides a riveting portrait of a world rife with hunger, corruption, and casual cruelty but also camaraderie, stolen moments of beauty, and love.
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE WINNER • LONGLISTED FOR THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION’S ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL • WINNER OF THE CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR.
That critique continues in Cusk’s eighth novel, Outline, but it’s delivered in a rather unusual way – via a narrator who hardly ever speaks. This narrator, a writer and divorced mother of two who goes to Athens to teach a writing course, is so self-effacing that her name, Faye (which, incidentally, means “doomed to die”), is discovered only by chance, towards the book’s end. However, rather than dangling the tantalising possibility that the narrator might be the author herself, this evasion has a much deeper significance, and comes to question one of the basic principles of feminism.
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