Outline
Title | Outline PDF eBook |
Author | Rachel Cusk |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2015-01-13 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0374712360 |
A luminous, powerful novel that establishes Rachel Cusk as one of the finest writers in the English language A man and a woman are seated next to each other on a plane. They get to talking—about their destination, their careers, their families. Grievances are aired, family tragedies discussed, marriages and divorces analyzed. An intimacy is established as two strangers contrast their own fictions about their lives. Rachel Cusk's Outline is a novel in ten conversations. Spare and stark, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing during one oppressively hot summer in Athens. She leads her students in storytelling exercises. She meets other visiting writers for dinner and discourse. 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. Outline takes a hard look at the things that are hardest to speak about. It brilliantly captures conversations, investigates people's motivations for storytelling, and questions their ability to ever do so honestly or unselfishly. In doing so it bares the deepest impulses behind the craft of fiction writing. This is Rachel Cusk's finest work yet, and one of the most startling, brilliant, original novels of recent years. A Finalist for the Folio Prize, the Goldsmiths Prize, the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction One of The New York Times' Top Ten Books of the Year Named a A New York Times Book Review Notable Book and a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, Vogue, NPR, The Guardian, The Independent, Glamour, and The Globe and Mail
How to Write a Novel Using the Snowflake Method
Title | How to Write a Novel Using the Snowflake Method PDF eBook |
Author | Randy Ingermanson |
Publisher | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2014-07-18 |
Genre | Creative writing |
ISBN | 9781500574055 |
The Snowflake Method-ten battle-tested steps that jump-start your creativity and help you quickly map out your story.
How to Be an American Housewife
Title | How to Be an American Housewife PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret Dilloway |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 242 |
Release | 2010-08-05 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 110118924X |
A mother-daughter story about the strong pull of tradition, and the lure and cost of breaking free of it. When Shoko decided to marry an American GI and leave Japan, she had her parents' blessing, her brother's scorn, and a gift from her husband-a book on how to be a proper American housewife. As she crossed the ocean to America, Shoko also brought with her a secret she would need to keep her entire life... Half a century later, Shoko's plans to finally return to Japan and reconcile with her brother are derailed by illness. In her place, she sends her grown American daughter, Sue, a divorced single mother whose own life isn't what she hoped for. As Sue takes in Japan, with all its beauty and contradictions, she discovers another side to her mother and returns to America unexpectedly changed and irrevocably touched.
Outline of My Lover
Title | Outline of My Lover PDF eBook |
Author | Douglas A Martin |
Publisher | Pan Macmillan Adult |
Pages | 176 |
Release | 2002-02-01 |
Genre | Fame |
ISBN | 9780330489607 |
In the sleepy town of Athens, Georgia, a young man goes off to a college miseducation. But the relationship between him and his rock star boyfriend falters under celebrity's shape-shifting light, and real life fills in the outline of the boy's expectations.
Outline of a Theory of Practice
Title | Outline of a Theory of Practice PDF eBook |
Author | Pierre Bourdieu |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 1977-06-02 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780521291644 |
Through Pierre Bourdieu's work in Kabylia (Algeria), he develops a theory on symbolic power.
Outline of Great Books
Title | Outline of Great Books PDF eBook |
Author | J. A. Hammerton |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1973-01-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780827402188 |
The Ten Day Outline
Title | The Ten Day Outline PDF eBook |
Author | Lewis Jorstad |
Publisher | |
Pages | 153 |
Release | 2021-01-09 |
Genre | Authorship |
ISBN | 9781733207966 |
"If you've ever tried to write a novel before, you know just how tricky that can be. From juggling your plot and subplots, to crafting characters and fleshing out your worldbuilding, you have a lot to think about. What's worse, you need to keep track of all of this while also putting words on the page and staying productive, otherwise, you may never finish your novel at all" --