The Lucky Ones

The much-praised new novel from award-winning author Rachel Cusk, who was one of Granta’s Best of British writers. The much-praised new novel from award-winning author Rachel Cusk, who was one of Granta’s Best of British writers.In this profound study of human relationships, five overlapping narratives of love and detachment merge to form a powerful evocation of family identity.A young pregnant woman''s misfortune; a new father''s disaffection; a daughter''s search for lost childhood; a mother''s antagonism; a wife''s secret suffering – through it all runs the story of Victor Porter, a campaigning lawyer, and his journalist wife Serena, in whose relationship the conflict between the public and the personal, between love and morality, is played out.Rachel Cusk writes of life''s transformations; of what separates us from those we love and what binds us to those we no longer understand. The Lucky Ones is a novel about creating and sustaining life. It illuminates with startling precision the texture and complexity of emotional existence within ''the bustling concourses of life.''

• | Author: Rachel Cusk
• | Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• | Publication Date: Jul 05, 2004
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781857029130
• | ISBN-10: 1857029135