{"product_id":"life-of-m-rachel-cusk","title":"Life of M - Rachel Cusk","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRachel Cusk\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAvailable to pre-order now, released September 1st.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlease note : If you pre-order an item and add more items in stock, we will ship the order together when the pre-order arrives. Release dates are subject to change, we don't send out emails, any changes are updated on the website.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the critically acclaimed author of the Outline trilogy, an irresistible novel of fame, power, beauty, and truth—and a blazing renovation of the form.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eM is a famous actor. She has been famous since she was a child. With such fame, her life has the appearance of freedom: people are instantly obliging, spaces are altered to accommodate her, time can be rearranged. Over time she has grown so accustomed to being recognized that not to be recognized comes as a rare surprise.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis might be why she agrees to let a stranger write her biography, a stranger who knows nothing of M and yet resembles her uncannily. The project they embark upon together sprawls and expands, to the olive groves and holiday beaches where M spends her days, across hotel rooms and bourgeois facades and film sets, through the endless modern cities whose beauty requires great suffering, whose ugliness holds great beauty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOut of the bewildering torrent of the present, Rachel Cusk has fashioned a new kind of literature. What begins with a collision between two people—M, and the ordinary stranger who begins to tell her story—evolves into a chronicle of modern life, a choral investigation into how we might find what is significant within the wreck of the ordinary. This is a novel stripped of artifice, that takes our emptiness and fills it with grace. It is a shocking achievement.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rachel Cusk","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48371805815032,"sku":null,"price":33.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0275\/7403\/files\/cusklifeofm.jpg?v=1780287936","url":"https:\/\/happyvalleyshop.com\/products\/life-of-m-rachel-cusk","provider":"Happy Valley","version":"1.0","type":"link"}