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‘A brilliant, stark and unsettling feat.’ OBSERVER
‘Thoughtful and true … Cusk is a disciple of the truth and she helps us to see.’ INDEPENDENT
‘Cusk’s most formidable, radical and compelling novel yet.’ THE CONVERSATION
A path-breaking novel of art, womanhood and violence, from the author of the Outline trilogy.
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.
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Cusk pulls off a rare feat: richly philosophical fiction – addressing nothing less ambitious than how to live in relationship with others – in which ideas are so successfully and naturally embedded in the quotidian that the reader can choose whether or not to acknowledge them them.
New York Times Book Review – Claire Messud
What keeps you reading, hungrily, is the violent precision of her writing.
Metro
Cusk is so gifted at distilling the human condition into words that some of her observations have the profundity of those of the great philosophers.
Independent on Sunday
Cusk is returning fiction to its roots in storytelling . . . Cusk's goal . . . [is] the establishment of a compelling, dreamlike language and worldview that are utterly her own.
Washington Post
A brilliant, stark and unsettling feat.
Observer
In Cusk's new novel Parade, she continues to X-ray the conditions of contemporary womanhood and motherhood. The novel is thoughtful and true, with velvet prose, succulent and graceful . . . A character in Parade describes art as “the pact of individuals denying society the last word”. I am grateful that Cusk continues to uphold this pact, to tell the truth, to write it as it is. She is a disciple of the truth, and she helps us to see.
Independent – Lucy Jones
Cusk is a writer of soaring intelligence.
New Statesman – Megan Nolan
Cusk's new work remains uncompromising and somehow also wholly necessary in today's turbulent cultural climate.
Sunday Independent (Ireland)
Cusk once again delivers a masterful narrative . [Her] unparalleled ability to blend philosophical insight with everyday observations makes Parade a compelling addition to her illustrious oeuvre.
Glamour
There's much to admire in Cusk's latest boundary-breaking work.
Financial Times
Mind-bending, identity-eliding . . . Exacting, insightful . . . daring, unsettling.
Irish Times
Riveting . Cusk's most formidable, radical and compelling novel yet.
The Conversation
If life were fair, Rachel Cusk would win every prize going.
Observer
Cusk confounds expectations.
Daily Telegraph
Cusk breaks all the rules.
Independent
