Arlington Park, Rachel Cusk
Arlington Park, Rachel Cusk
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Arlington Park

Author: Rachel Cusk

Narrator: Jilly Bond

Unabridged: 8 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/08/2022

Synopsis

A funny, satirical tale of English mothers on the brink of rebellion, Arlington Park is a novel for the ages.Set over the course of one rainy day in an ordinary English suburb, Arlington Park is a viciously funny portrait of a group of young mothers, each bound to their families, each straining for some kind of independence: Juliet, enraged at the victory of men over women in family life; Amanda, warding off thoughts of death with obsessive housework; Solly, about to give birth to her fourth child; Maisie, struggling to accept provincial life; and Christine, the optimist and host of a dinner party where the neighbors come together.

About Rachel Cusk

Rachel Cusk is the author of Second Place; the trilogy Outline, Transit, Kudos; the essay collection Coventry; the memoirs A Life’s Work, The Last Supper, and Aftermath; and several other novels: Saving Agnes (winner of the Whitbread Award), The Temporary, The Country Life (winner of the Somerset Maugham Award), The Lucky Ones, In the Fold, Arlington Park, and The Bradshaw Variations.

About Jilly Bond

Jilly Bond has worked extensively in theater and radio for many years. Her stage credits include Miranda in The Tempest, Fiona in When I Was a Girl I Used to Scream and Shout, and Anita in A Small Family Business. She is regularly heard in dramas for Radio 4 and the BBC World Service. She has won two AudioFile Earphones Awards for her audiobook narration.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Trish

What makes Cusk such a relevant and important writer are the many themes running through her books also run through our lives. She is holding a conversation with us about what we face as human beings in a changing world, leading us as though we are in a library literary club. The questions she raise......more

Goodreads review by Come

Arlington Park è un elegante sobborgo alla periferia di Londra. Un romanzo corale, che ha come voci protagoniste quelle di più donne: Christine, Maisie, Juliet, Maggie, Amanda, Solly. Sembra che la sola realizzazione delle donne ad Arlington Park sia quella di essere delle perfette mogli, delle perf......more

Goodreads review by julieta

Rachel Cusk!! es increíble. Es como si se metiera en las células de eso conocido como "normalidad" y ve todo lo que hay. Tiene una manera de contar esa cotidiana, la de lo que me suena a un suburbio, que es increíble. Las vidas de varias mujeres, todas con hijos, amas de casa, con vidas supuestament......more

Quotes

“A domestic adventure about the perils of modern privilege that is as smartly satirical as it is warmly wise.” Elle

“Much of the satirical drama of Arlington Park simmers just below the superficial veneer of suburbia. Many of these women seethe with rage and violence in their minds or behind the closed doors of their vaultlike homes…Sharp wit and commanding prose.” New York Times

“Cusk’s frank acknowledgment of maternal ambivalence is rare and wonderful.” Entertainment Weekly

“Devastating…Incisively vivid.” Publishers Weekly

“No one has written better about what, I suppose, is generally known as female experience…All of it is familiar from life but not (thus far) from literature. Everything about Arlington Park is original and fearless.” Bookforum

“Cusk’s glory is her style, cold and hard and devastatingly specific, empathetic but not sympathetic.” Los Angeles Times

“Hideously funny…A novel with a sense of rightness at its core and a narrative intelligence so swift and piercing it can take your breath away.” Boston Globe

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