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ID: 499032
Title: Second Place: A Novel
Author: Rachel Cusk
Narrator: Kate Fleetwood
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6:18:09
Language: English
Release date: 05-04-21
Publisher: HarperPerennial Classics
Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Historical
Summary:
Longlisted for the Booker Prize
On O, The Oprah Magazines list of 55 of the Most Anticipated Books of 2021
On a sun-soaked Parisian street, M, a mother on the brink of rebellion, wanders into a famous artists gallery show. The artists paintings speakquite literallyto her, promising a liberation usually reserved for men. She returns to the coastal home she shares with her husband, but the unsettling impression of the art, and the evasive artist, remains. So she writes to him, inviting him to stay in their second place, a modest cottage salvaged from the land.
When historical catastrophe upends daily life, Ms daughter returns to the marsh, along with her prim, privileged boyfriend. The painter arrives too, accompanied by a lithe, cosmopolitan lover. As the couples become resigned to the perilous indoors, fissures form within the strange group. The painters quietly demonic presence wreaks havoc with M, plunging her into existential disarray. As secrets, alliances and private desires come to light, she is forced to choose between her deepest impulses: to comply or to rebel completely.
Like her acclaimed Outline trilogy, Rachel Cusks Second Place transcends its form. Inspired by Lorenzo in Taos, Mabel Dodge Luhans 1932 memoir about the writer D. H. Lawrences fraught visit to her communal property, the novel hovers between past and present, Gothic and contemporary, fable and truthand continues to haunt us long after weve looked away.
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