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The Lucky Ones

by Rachel Cusk

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The long-awaited new novel from the Whitbread Award winning author of SAVING AGNES and THE COUNTRY LIFE, which won her a Somerset Maugham Prize. 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.'… (more)
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I am reading Rachel Cusk's books in order, this is my 4th-- I did skip over her first memoir, for now. I'm just blown away by the insight of this author. She is able to put herself in the shoes of a pregnant incarcerated teen, a new father, a woman who was unable to have her own child, a grandmother, and two very different mothers of young children. I think there is something here for readers of any age, with or without children. I have never had a better sense of the kind of love that a parent has for their children, a love the overrides all other loves and needs in life, and as the author suggests, I do believe it is a form of self-love. It is interesting to think about how your love for your children changes your feeling for your partner. That dry Cusk humour is present throughout and she does not miss a beat in the portrayals of young children in this book. I'm not really sure what the connections really do for the story, and I'm not sure why the presence of the Victor character looms throughout the book. I will have to give it some more thought. I actually feel like I need to read the book a second time. ( )
  squarishoval | Aug 14, 2022 |
This book of connected short stories is my first experience with Cusk. I will definitely read her novels as I liked her style. Each story offered a different glimpse of Cusk's creative abilities. The first story in the collection was my favourite. It is a 5-star story, to me. There were a couple of 4-star stories and a couple of 2-star and 3-star stories so I am having a tough time with my overall rating. ( )
  JooniperD | Apr 6, 2013 |
This is well-written character-study of several different women and their deepest feelings about marriage and motherhood. ( )
  chandraceta | Jun 21, 2009 |
I didn't get this. What I saw here was 5 loosely interconnected stories about some very unhappy people. I didn't see the "luck" anywhere. I'm kind of sorry I read this, for it was rather depressing and I don't think it said anything good about children at all. I'm glad it was short so I didn't waste more than a day on it. ( )
  miyurose | Dec 12, 2008 |
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The long-awaited new novel from the Whitbread Award winning author of SAVING AGNES and THE COUNTRY LIFE, which won her a Somerset Maugham Prize. 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.'

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