![]() ![]() The Outline series represents Cusk’s most rigorous and impressive attempt to date to write about the problem of female freedom. Like the work that preceded it, the trilogy is also about the strictures of femininity, the claustrophobia of domestic life, and the illusions we fashion in order to survive both. While these recent novels are far less conventional than Cusk’s early fiction-the three Outline books consist almost entirely of conversation, with little description of setting and even less of the narrator’s inner life-Cusk’s long-standing preoccupations are all present nonetheless. Indeed, the series’ experimental form can obscure this thematic continuity. She has explored it in conventional realist fiction, in her memoirs of motherhood and marriage, and again in the inventive Outline trilogy. ![]() From her earliest work, about the travails of being a hyperintelligent young woman in a world filled with difficult men, to her more recent work, on the uniquely female crises of midlife, Cusk has attempted to answer this question. ![]() The question of female freedom, its variations and limitations, is one that has preoccupied Cusk throughout her career. ![]()
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