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A Life's Work

On Becoming a Mother

By Rachel Cusk

Paperback | 9780312311308

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In the new genre of 'mommy lit,' acclaimed English novelist Rachel Cusk's A Life's Work: On Becoming a Mother uniquely combines a literary sensibility with searing emotional honesty in her quest to reclaim her former self after giving birth. In the words of novelist Helen Dunmore, it is 'a deeply faContinue

In the new genre of 'mommy lit,' acclaimed English novelist Rachel Cusk's A Life's Work: On Becoming a Mother uniquely combines a literary sensibility with searing emotional honesty in her quest to reclaim her former self after giving birth. In the words of novelist Helen Dunmore, it is 'a deeply fascinating read, a nakedly honest, witty, and eloquent exploration of the world of mother and child, where each of us began.'

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  • Mother's ruin

    A Life's Work: On Becoming a Mother Rachel Cusk Fourth Estate £12.99, pp224 'You'd think she was the first person in the world to have a baby,' I once heard a mother say of another. I had a version of this ungenerous feeling about Rachel Cusk's A Lif ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • Motherhood under the microscope

    A Life's Work: On Becoming a Mother by Rachel Cusk (Fourth Estate, £6.99) It is all right - no, more than all right, potentially lucrative, as I have discovered - for men to complain when they become fathers. But for a woman to feel aggrieved... tsk, ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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Book Details

  • English Books
  • Paperback 228 Pages
  • Edition: Reprint
  • ISBN-10: 0312311303
  • ISBN-13: 9780312311308
  • Publisher: Picador
  • Pub date: Mar 01, 2003
  • Dimensions: 1355 mm x 903 mm x 65 mm Just how big is that?
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