Joan Smith

Divorced from Reality

Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation

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I’m going to start this review with an admission: I have next to no idea what this book is about. Not in a literal sense, obviously; there is a writer called Rachel Cusk, who used to be married and now isn’t, and she seems quite cross about it. On second thoughts, cross isn’t the right word for the cosmic anguish that suffuses her book, expressing itself in observations about bleak weather and quotes about Oedipus (the plays, not the complex, I think).

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