A writer hides. A mother dies. A woman is attacked.
In Parade, Rachel Cusk creates a new documentary voice that operates on the border between fiction and reality. It braids imagined characters with the actual, experience with the philosophical, to altering effect.
Midway through his life, an artist begins to paint upside down.
In Paris, a woman is attacked by a stranger in the street.
A mother dies. A man falls to his death. Couples seek escape in distant lands.
The new novel from one of the most distinctive writers of the age, Parade sets loose a carousel of lives. It surges past the limits of identity, character, and plot, to tell a true story-about art, family, morality, gender, and how we compose ourselves.
Reviews
Praise for the Outline trilogy: 'A work of stunning beauty, deep insight and great originality.' Monica Ali 'A landmark in twenty-first-century English literature.' Observer 'A perfect synthesis of form and content.' Deborah Levy 'Page-turningly enthralling and charged with the power to move.' Tessa Hadley 'Reaches a kind of formal perfection . . . masterly.' Sally Rooney
