Rachel cusk book5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() More than love, more than work, more than length of life or quantity of happiness, this was the question whose mystery I found most compelling. Why has motherhood been so disregarded in literature until now? And how did Cusk use her experience of this most important issue to make a literary statement? ‘If at any point in my life I had been able to find out what the future held, I would always have wanted to know whether or not I would have children. Twenty years after its first publication, the book, finally translated into French, now seems to have found a more welcoming climate for the taboos that it broke in such a hilarious and sharp manner. Rachel Cusk is the author of three memoirs-A Lifes Work, The Last Supper, and Aftermath-and several novels: Saving Agnes, winner of the Whitbread First Novel. An avowed feminist, she sparked off a fierce controversy in 2001 when she published an essay on her experience of motherhood, A Life’s Work: On Becoming a Mother, a trenchant and shockingly sincere book. Alongside her works of fiction, Rachel Cusk has built up an autobiographical body of work, including an uncompromising text on her divorce ( Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation). ![]()
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