5/18/2023 0 Comments Rachel cusk second place![]() To M, both the marsh and L’s landscapes hold “the quality of something remembered, that shares and is inextricable from the moment of being.” When he arrives during a global quarantine (making this one of our first COVID novels), M hopes that he will see it the way she does and capture the truth it stows. So she invites L to stay with her and her husband Tony at a second cottage on the land. It reminds the narrator, M, of a famous painter’s works, so much so that she imagines her very viewing of it as “half-creations”, paintings of his, created by her. ![]() Rachel Cusk’s latest novel, Second Place, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, is set by a marsh. Second Place by Rachel Cusk Farrar, Straus and Giroux ![]()
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