The seventh novel by the acclaimed author of the Outline trilogy, Rachel Cusk’s The Bradshaw Variations is a lyrical, subversive tale of a marriage unraveling.
Thomas Bradshaw and Tonie Swann are experiencing the classic symptoms of marriage in its middle years: comfortable house, happy enough daughter, and an eerie sense that life might be happening
elsewhere. Then Tonie accepts a big promotion at work and Thomas agrees to become a stay-at-home dad. While Thomas is suddenly faced with the daily silence of an empty house, Tonie finds herself
alive to previously unimagined possibilities. And at the head of the family, the aging Bradshaw parents continue their marital dynamic of bickering and petty undermining.
Editorial Reviews
Editorial Reviews
“A virtuoso…[Cusk’s] interiors whisper and shiver, as if Virginia Woolf had flitted through…She has a task and she applies herself to it soberly: the trapping, if only in a mirrored surface, of some fragment of reality that might yield a truth about the whole.” —The Guardian (London)
“At times I just wanted to punch the air in a frenzy of delighted recognition…Every single one of these honestly drawn and heart-sinkingly recognisable characters…gave me real, cackling pleasure…[Cusk’s] triumph is to make us laugh at, but also I think forgive, ourselves.” —Financial Times
“[Cusk] is a first-rate writer, caustically intelligent and sharply observant…Every page gleams with [her] darkly humorous powers of observation.” —New York Times
“Astonishing…The Bradshaw Variations is a timely, necessary story.” —Elle
Rachel Cusk is the author of the Outline trilogy, the memoirs A Life’s Work and Aftermath, and several other works of fiction and nonfiction. Her debut novel,
Saving Agnes, won the Whitbread First Novel Award. She is a Guggenheim Fellow. She lives in Paris.
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