Outline Trilogy: Outline : A Novel (Series #1) (Paperback)

from Cariola

Outline begins when a woman on a plane bound for Athens is prodded into conversation by the man sitting next to her who narrates the history of his failed marriages. We learn that the never-named woman, a writer, has been invited to teach a creative writing course; her Greek students will all wri...

from Donna828

It isn't a bit surprising that this book is narrated by a writing teacher. Faye, whose name is only mentioned one time in a brief phone call, is a British woman teaching a writing class in Athens. I would have to say her best quality is listening. The book is described as a novel in ten conversat...

from RidgewayGirl

Rachel Cusk's novel follows a woman teaching a week-long writing class in Athens, Greece. Or rather, we follow what other people tell her about themselves during this week. Faye, newly divorced, is figuring out the new shape of her life. She's being deliberately passive, allowing events to happen...

from quondame

A series of conversation an English writer who is teaching a couple of days in Athens, has with a man she meets on the plane and a couple of friends and acquaintances, which are mostly about marriage failures and the resulting muddling of identity, also directed accounts from her students which h...

from LukeS

Rachel Cusk introduces her readers to a cast of characters in Outline; these characters don't interact with each other much, and the only action to move the narrative forward is a series of monologues about their lives. I wouldn't blame you for thinking, Why would I want to read that? Well, you w...