Outline by Rachel Cusk

Outline by Rachel Cusk
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I loved this book mostly because I loved the ideas and the sentences. There was nearly no plot to speak of. The main character kind of wanders around talking to people in Greece. Mostly they tell each other stories about their pasts. She's in Greece to teach a writing class so there's also a brief scene in her class.

Here are some ponderous sentences I enjoyed nonetheless:

"The person she was involved with now, she said - a man named Konstantin- had given her for the first time in her life a cause to fear these tendencies in herself, for the reason that - unlike, if she was to be honest, any other man of her experience- she judged him to be her equal. He was intelligent, handsome, amusing, an intellectual: she liked being beside him, liked the reflection of herself he gave her. And he was a man in possession of his own morality and attitudes, so she felt for the first time, as she had said - a kind of invisible boundary around him, a line it was clear, though no one ever said as much, she ought not to cross."

The story about the dog is horrifying. And we're adopting a puppy on Sunday!



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