· Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation by Rachel Cusk – review. Infuriating and narcissistic? Yes, but also brave and brilliant. Rachel Cusk Author: Frances Stonor Saunders. "AfterMath: On Marriage and Separation" seemed to be written prematurely within the arc of this particular life experience of the memoir writer. Rachel Cusk does not dig deeply at all into the demise of her marriage nor her own causal pathologies which become painfully obvious to the reader but apparently not yet the writer as pages full of /5(23). Aftermath: on marriage and separation. Responsibility Rachel Cusk. Imprint London: Faber and Faber, Rachel Cusk's marriage of ten years came to an end. In the months that followed, life as she had known it came apart, "like a jigsaw dismantled into a heap of broken-edged pieces". Aftermath chronicles this perilous journey as the.
Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation By Rachel Cusk Farrar, Straus and Giroux; pages. Not long ago, in an online blog of the Wall Street Journal, a wife made a confession. A high-earning editor and the breadwinner in her family, she admitted that she resents her husband for being supportive and domestically hands-on. Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation by Rachel Cusk Everyone from Oedipus to the avenging Clytemnestra is summoned as a witness in Rachel Cusk's book about the painful breakdown of her marriage. Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation. In the winter of , Rachel Cusk's marriage of ten years came to an end. In the months that followed, life as she had known it came apart, 'like a jigsaw dismantled into a heap of broken-edged pieces'. 'Aftermath' chronicles this perilous journey as the author redefines herself as a single woman.
"AfterMath: On Marriage and Separation" seemed to be written prematurely within the arc of this particular life experience of the memoir writer. Rachel Cusk does not dig deeply at all into the demise of her marriage nor her own causal pathologies which become painfully obvious to the reader but apparently not yet the writer as pages full of pseudo-intellectual text drone on with barely any emotional depth to be found. A novelist's unflinching analysis of her failed marriage. Cusk (The Bradshaw Variations, , etc.) fixes an unnervingly steady gaze on the breakdown of her domestic life. “There was nothing left to dismantle,” she writes, “except the children, and that would require the intervention of science.”. In her third memoir, the author brings together elements of a well-constructed novel—it’s compelling and even thrilling, despite the fact that the story is unsurprising and banal (man. The book sold well. So it stands to reason that on getting divorced from her daughters’ father, Cusk should write another memoir. “Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation” is the bookend to.
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