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Cusk, Rachel, 1967-
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Suburban life -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Fiction.
Parents -- Fiction.
Middle class -- Fiction.
England -- Fiction.
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Cusk, Rachel, 1967-
Suburban life -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Fiction.
Parents -- Fiction.
Middle class -- Fiction.
England -- Fiction.
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Arlington Park / Rachel Cusk.
by
Cusk, Rachel, 1967-
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.
Call #:
FICTION
CUS
Subjects
Suburban
life
--
Moral
and
ethical
aspects
--
Fiction
.
Parents
--
Fiction
.
Middle class
--
Fiction
.
England
--
Fiction
.
ISBN:
0374100802 (alk. paper)
9780374100803 (alk. paper)
Edition:
1st American ed.
Description:
248 p. ; 22 cm.
Notes:
"Originally published in 2006 by Faber and Faber Ltd, Great Britain"--T.p. verso.
Summary:
"Arlington Park, a modern-day English suburb very much like its American counterparts, is a place devoted to the profitable ordinariness of
life
. Amidst its leafy avenues and comfortable houses, its residents live out the dubious accomplishments of civilization: material prosperity, personal freedom, and
moral
indifference. In Arlington Park, men work, women look after children, and people generally do what's expected of them. It's a world awash in contentment but empty of belief, and riven with strange anxieties. How are they to know right from wrong? How should they use their knowledge of other people's sufferings? What is the relationship of politics to their own domestic arrangements? Set over the course of a single rainy day, the novel moves from one household to another, and through the passing hours conducts a deep examination of its characters' lives: of Juliet, enraged at the victory of men over women in family
life
; of Amanda, warding off thoughts of death with obsessive housework; of Solly, who confronts her own buried femininity in the person of her Italian lodger; of Maisie, despairing at the inevitability with which beauty is destroyed; and of Christine, whose troubled, hilarious spirit presides over Arlington Park and the way of
life
it represents. Darkly comic, deeply affecting, and wise, Arlington Park is a page-turning imagining of the extraordinary inner nature of ordinary
life
, by one of Britain's most exciting young novelists."--Publisher.
Genre:
Psychological
fiction
.
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