Parade
A path-breaking novel of art, womanhood and violence, from the author of the Outline trilogy.
Midway through his life, an artist begins to paint upside down.
In Paris, a woman is attacked by a stranger in the street.
A mother dies. A man falls to his death. Couples seek escape in distant lands.
The new novel from one of the most distinctive writers of the age, Parade sets loose a carousel of lives. It surges past the limits of identity, character, and plot, to tell a true story-about art, family, morality, gender, and how we compose ourselves.
- Publisher: Faber & Faber
- Publication date: 06/06/2024
- ISBN: 9780571377954
- Page extent: 208
- Format: Paperback
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The book’s organising principle is elusive – not as clearly elucidated as in the Outline Trilogy, surely – and feels random. But it also imbues a welcome open-endedness in a wide-ranging novel which tackles abortion, death, abuse, suicide and self-hatred. These are not pleasurable things by any measure and there is little to no beauty and redemption in Cusk’s monologues. But the chief pleasure of a Cusk novel is in the quality of the eavesdropping on such taboo topics and, in this case, Parade delivers a generous and illicit transcript.
Less a study of the woman artist and more a study of how the woman artist is talked about, Parade finds Cusk at the limits of the novel and the essay, saying something truly new.
Shawn Hoo, The Straits Times
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