Kudos: A Novel by Rachel Cusk (Outline Trilogy, Book 3)

Rachel Cusk, the critically acclaimed author of Outline and Transit, completes her pathbreaking trilogy with Kudos, "an object lesson in rigor, elegance, and fury" —Merve Emre, Harper's

A woman writer visits a Europe in flux, where questions of personal and political identity are rising to the surface and the trauma of change is opening up new possibilities of loss and renewal. Within the rituals of literary culture, Faye finds the human story in disarray amid differing attitudes toward the public enactment of the creative persona, and she begins to identify among the people she meets a tension between truth and representation that causes her to consider questions of acclaim, justice, and the ultimate value of suffering. The third in the trilogy that began with Outline, Rachel Cusk’s Kudos takes as its theme the relationship between pain and honor, and investigates the moral nature of success as a precept of both art and living.

-Selected as one of O Magazine's "Ten Titles to Pick Up Now;" "The Best Fiction for 2018," The Guardian; "30 Best Books to Read this Summer," Elle; "30 Summer Books to Get Excited About," Buzzfeed; "20 Books We Can’t Wait to Read," The Toronto Star; "10 Most Exciting Book Releases for 2018," Vulture; "Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2018," Chicago Reader; the Los Angeles Review of Books's June Book Club Pick