A Life's Work - by Rachel Cusk (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>Multi-award-winning author Rachel Cusk's honest memoir that captures the life-changing wonders of motherhood. </b> <p/><b>Selected by <i>The New York Times</i> as one of the 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years</b> <p/><b>"Funny and smart and refreshingly akin to a war diary--sort of Apocalypse Baby Now . . . <i>A Life's Work</i> is wholly original and unabashedly true." --<i>The New York Times Book Review</i></b> <p/><i>A Life's Work: On Becoming a Mother </i>is Rachel Cusk's funny, moving, brutally honest account of her early experiences of motherhood. When it was published it 2001, it divided critics and readers. One famous columnist wrote a piece demanding that Cusk's children be taken into care, saying she was unfit to look after them, and Oprah Winfrey invited her on the show to defend herself. <p/>An education in babies, books, breast-feeding, toddler groups, broken nights, bad advice and never being alone, it is a landmark work, which has provoked acclaim and outrage in equal measure.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>[Cusk's] account is extraordinary for its absence of polemic: she writes with the intelligence, wit, and keen eye for detail demanded by any kind of reporting, and the result is a book on the subject curiously unlike any other. <i>--The New Yorker</i> <p/>[<i>A Life's Work</i>] is as compulsive as a thriller although its plot (pregnancy, birth, colic, sleepless nights) is - naturally - a shambles and its cast tiny and undistinguished (mother, father, baby, doctor, health visitor, a few friends). Its time scheme is wild - vertiginously unchronological, as if to convey the disorientation of fatigue: babies destroy all sense of conventional time . . . She describes the book as a letter to women 'in the hope that they find some companionship in my experience'. No mother could fail to be interested and moved. Most will recognise themselves. <i>--</i>Kate Kellaway, <i>The Guardian</i> <p/><i></i>Rachel Cusk writes about new motherhood with an honesty and clarity that makes this memoir feel almost illicit. Sleepless nights, yes; colic, yes; but also a raw, frantic love for her firstborn daughter that she depicts and dissects with both rigor and amazement. <i>--</i>Jennifer Szalai, <i> The New York Times Book Review</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Rachel Cusk </b>is the author of <i>Second Place</i>; the trilogy <i>Outline</i>, <i>Transit</i>, <i>Kudos</i>; the essay collection <i>Coventry</i>; the memoirs <i>A Life's</i> <i>Work</i>, <i>The Last Supper</i>, <i> </i>and <i>Aftermath</i>; and several other novels: <i>Saving Agnes </i>(winner of the Whitbread Award), <i>The Temporary</i>, <i>The Country Life </i>(winner of the Somerset Maugham Award), <i>The Lucky Ones</i>, <i>In the Fold</i>, <i>Arlington</i> <i>Park</i>, <i> </i>and <i>The Bradshaw Variations</i>.
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