I even let my bias against series make me several years late to the Elena Ferrante party. I mercilessly mocked my husband’s love of Brandon Sanderson and my mom’s predilection for Jodi Picoult. I began buying books based on Staff Picks and Obama’s reading lists. I practically built my freshman dorm décor aesthetic around Sophie Kinsella’s Shopaholic books.Īnd then I grew up and got snobby. I queued for Harry Potter releases and borrowed my Gram’s dogeared Sue Grafton, Tom Clancy, and Mary Higgins Clark paperbacks. The Scholastic Book Fair was my Super Bowl – an annual opportunity to bolster my collection of not only stickers and posters, but also my beloved Goosebumps and Sweet Valley High ‘chapter books.’ In Grade Two, I remember cheering when I got chicken pox because it meant my Mom would buy me a Babysitter’s Club boxed set and I could curl up in her big Queen-sized bed all week, inhaling one book after another.Įven as a teenager, I read series without reservation. I devoured Franklin and Berenstain Bears, then later Ramona, Little House on the Prairie, and The Boxcar Children. "The 100 best books of the 21st century". ^ "Baileys Women's prize for Fiction announce 2015 shortlist"."Outline by Rachel Cusk review – vignettes from a writing workshop". ^ Garner, Dwight Sehgal, Parul Szalai, Jennifer (5 March 2018).^ "Macmillan: Series: Outline Trilogy".^ "Outline | Rachel Cusk | Macmillan".Outline was voted the 34th best book since 2000 by The Guardian. It made the 2014 shortlist of the Goldsmiths Prize, the 2015 shortlist of the Folio Prize, and the 2015 shortlist of the Bailey Women's Prize for Fiction. Outline was named one of The New York Times Top Ten books of 2015. In every chapter, the writer meets people and engages in long conversations on topics such as love, fiction, marriage, and intimacy. The next day she meets with an Irish colleague from the writing school who also tells her his life story. On the plane, she meets an older Greek bachelor who tells her about his two failed marriages. It was chosen by The New York Times critics as one of the 15 remarkable books by women that are "shaping the way we read and write fiction in the 21st century." The New Yorker has called the novel "autobiographical fiction." Plot Īn English woman writer flies to Athens to teach a summer writing workshop. Outline is a novel by Rachel Cusk, the first in a trilogy known as The Outline trilogy, which also contains the novels Transit and Kudos. 2014 (United Kingdom), 2015 (United States)
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