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Parade

A NovelBy Rachel CuskNarrated by Genevieve Gaunt
Length5h 39m

About this audiobook

Crafted by the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defines the novel Midway through his life, an artist begins to paint upside down. Eventually, he paints his wife upside down. He also makes her ugly. The paintings are a great success. In Paris, a woman is attacked by a stranger in the street. The attacker flees, but not before turning around to contemplate her victim, like an artist stepping back from a canvas. When a woman dies, her children confront her legacy: the stories she told, the roles she assigned to them, the ways she withheld her love. Her death is a kind of freedom. An artist takes on a series of pseudonyms to conceal his work from his mother and father. His brother does the opposite. They share the same parents, but they have inherited different things. Parade is a story that confronts and demolishes the conventions of storytelling. 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. A writer and a visionary like no other, Rachel Cusk turns language upside down to show us our world as it really is.

Audiobook details

Rating★★★ 3.5 (7.4K)
Includes Goodreads, Amazon
GenreGeneral Fiction
Length5 hrs 39 mins
Narrated byGenevieve Gaunt
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateJun 18, 2024
LanguageEnglish

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