Parade

A Novel

by Rachel Cusk

On Sale: 06/18/2024

Parade

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Parade

A Novel

by Rachel Cusk

On Sale: 06/18/2024

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About the Book

Crafted by the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defines the novel.

Midway through his life, an artist begins to paint upside down. Eventually, he paints his wife upside down. He also makes her ugly. The paintings are a great success.

In Paris, a woman is attacked by a stranger in the street. The attacker flees, but not before turning around to contemplate her victim, like an artist stepping back from a canvas.

When a woman dies, her children confront her legacy: the stories she told, the roles she assigned to them, the ways she withheld her love. Her death is a kind of freedom.

An artist takes on a series of pseudonyms to conceal his work from his mother and father. His brother does the opposite. They share the same parents, but they have inherited different things.

Parade is a story that confronts and demolishes the conventions of storytelling. It surges past the limits of identity, character and plot to tell a true story—about art, family, morality, gender and how we compose ourselves. A writer and a visionary like no other, Rachel Cusk turns language upside down to show us our world as it really is.

Critical Praise

"A homage to brokenness, Parade is serrated and shattering?—?jagged, cut, refracted, and indifferent to being whole. With bold force, Cusk captures something unsettling and true about identity: moments of clarity are as lonely, fleeting, and painful as an unexpected blow." — The Literary Review of Canada

Parade will resonate with fans of Cusk’s novels Outline, Transit and Kudos, which made waves for the same quiet but unrelenting voice....Through her characters, Cusk shows us that art can be the site of violence, and also at times, the only medium through which to save oneself from it.” — Associated Press

Parade is a novel composed of broken-down shapes and disintegrating shadows, sometimes as ugly and revealing as the nude that G paints of his devoted wife....But in this diffuse novel about the dissolution of the self and the multiple personalities required to be Woman, Artist, Wife, Mother, Daughter, Cusk shows us how we might start to undress.” — The Walrus

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Product Details

  • ISBN: 9781443471671
  • ISBN 10: 1443471674
  • Imprint: Harper Perennial
  • On Sale: 06/18/2024
  • Pages: 208
  • List Price:29.99 CAD
  • BISAC1 : FICTION / Literary
  • BISAC2 : FICTION / General

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