Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first paperback edition, early printing of Outline (Outline Trilogy, 1) by Rachel Cusk in a new archival wrap. First Picador Edition stated, January 2016 Picador. Eleventh Printing with partial number line, 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11.
The exterior of this paperback edition is in Very Good condition, with bright covers with a few marks and smudges, no creases, clean page blocks, mild surface wear, strong title on a square spine, a tight binding with no spine cracks, rubbed spine ends, mild edge wear and rounded corners. The interior of the book is in Near Fine condition with an erased price on the first free end paper and no other marks, inscriptions, or signs of ownership. The inside covers and the interior pages are clean and bright.
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.
