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Rachel Cusk

novelist

Rachel Cusk is a Canadian-born novelist and writer who lives and works in the United Kingdom.

FROM Rachel Cusk

Rachel Cusk: Transit
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Rachel Cusk: Transit Rachel Cusk's novel Transit is the second in a planned trilogy. Cusk believes that humans have an innate grasp of form, a gift that makes us story-tellers. But the stories we tell ourselves can become traps.

28 min, 29 sec Feb 23, 2017

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