ASunday Times(London) Top 100 Novel of the Twenty-First Century
No one has written better about what, I suppose, is generally known as female experience . . . All of it is familiar from life but not (thus far) from literature. Everything aboutArlingtonParkis original and fearless. Francine Prose,Bookforum
Set over the course of one rainy day in an ordinary English suburb,ArlingtonParkis a viciously funny portrait of a group of young mothers, each bound to their families, each straining for some kind of independence: Juliet, enraged at the victory of men over women in family life; Amanda, warding off thoughts of death with obsessive housework; Solly, about to give birth to her fourth child; Maisie, struggling to accept provincial life; and Christine, the optimist and host of a dinner party where the neighbors come together.
Penetrating and empathetic, Rachel Cusk'sArlington Parkis a domestic adventure about the perils of modern privilege that is as smartly satirical as it is warmly wise (Elle).
Rachel Cuskis the author of
Second Place; the trilogy
Outline,
Transit,
Kudos; the essay collection
Coventry; the memoirs
A LifesWork,
The Last Supper,
and
Aftermath; and several other novels:
Saving Agnes(winner of the Whitbread Award),
The Temporary,
The Country Life(winner of the Somerset Maugham Award),
The Lucky Ones,
In the Fold,
ArlingtonPark,
and
The Bradshaw Variations.
Everything aboutArlingtonParkis 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-cl3+
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