![]() ![]() More promising is the man on her other side, an elderly Greek, apparently wealthy (though perhaps not as wealthy as the narrator assumes), who tells her with a weary charm of his failed marriages and elicits her number for a hook-up. Rudeness, egotism and inattention to others are very much on the narrator’s radar. Later, when she hands him a tray of food, he ‘silently lifted up his gaming console with both hands so that I could place it on the folded-down table in front of him’. Next to the narrator is ‘a swarthy boy with lolling knees whose fat thumbs sped around the screen of a gaming console’. ‘A lot of people want to be writers: there was no reason to think you couldn’t buy your way into it.’ The subsequent plane trip is deftly described. But first she must have lunch with a bookish billionaire in a London club. The novel is mostly set in Athens, where Faye has come to teach a creative writing course. We discover quite late on that she is called Faye, and it’s jarring finally to have a name for this ambiguous entity. ![]() ![]() ![]() The narrator, while undeniably ‘there’ – she is continually observing and commenting – remains an enigma, with little back story. Rachel Cusk is obviously a writer of tremendous talent, and 'Outline' doesnt hide her skills. There is a gulf at the heart of this book. ![]()
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