Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first edition, second printing hardcover copy of Outline (Outline Trilogy, 1) by Rachel Cusk in a new archival wrap. First American Edition stated, 2015 Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Second Printing with full number line reversed, 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.
The book is in Near Fine condition with clean, bright boards, strong title ink on a straight spine, tight binding, mild spine tilt, lightly rolled spine ends, mild edge wear, and two rounded corners. The interior of the book is in Near Fine condition with an erased price on the first free end paper. No other marks, inscriptions or other signs of ownership inside. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and bright, making it an excellent addition to any collection.
The dust jacket is in Near Fine condition with some light soiling and mild edge wear, and the price is on the front flap. Looks great in a new Brodart archival wrap.
Rachel Cusk’s Outline is a novel in ten conversations. Spare and lucid, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing over an oppressively hot summer in Athens. She leads her students in storytelling exercises. She meets other visiting writers for dinner. She goes swimming in the Ionian Sea with her neighbor from the plane. The people she encounters speak volubly about themselves: their fantasies, anxieties, pet theories, regrets, and longings. And through these disclosures, a portrait of the narrator is drawn by contrast, a portrait of a woman learning to face a great loss.
Ships promptly in a secure mailer with book wrapped in both craft paper and bubble wrap.
