About the Author

Rachel Cusk is the author of Second Place; the trilogy Outline, Transit, Kudos; the essay collection Coventry; the memoirs A Life's Work, The Last Supper, and Aftermath; and several other novels: Saving Agnes (winner of the Whitbread Award), The Temporary, The Country Life (winner of the Somerset Maugham Award), The Lucky Ones, In the Fold, Arlington Park, and The Bradshaw Variations.

Reviews

"Everything about Arlington Park is original and fearless." --Francine Prose, Bookforum "Hideously funny . . . A novel with a sense of rightness at its core and a narrative intelligence so swift and piercing it can take your breath away." --The Boston Globe "Her books are smart and deep, telling tales of urban life that are the twenty-first-century version of Austen or Thackeray. . . . Cusk's depictions and evaluations are spot-on, her language smooth and enthralling." --Baltimore Sun "Cusk's glory is her style, cold and hard and devastatingly specific, empathetic but not sympathetic." --Los Angeles Times "Cusk's frank acknowledgment of maternal ambivalence is rare and wonderful." --Entertainment Weekly "Sharp wit and commanding prose." --The New York Times "Devastating . . . Incisively vivid." --Publishers Weekly