Rarely does a single word of its exceptionally polished prose seem out of place. " Kudos achieves a kind of formal perfection. In fact, it is a breathtaking success." -Katy Waldman, The New Yorker a book about failure that is not, in itself, a failure. " has achieved something both radical and beautiful. Unforgettable." -Jenny Offill, The New York Times
Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vulture ( New York), Bustle, Buzzfeed News, Flavorwire, The Guardian, Financial Times, the Times Literary Supplement, and The New Statesman "Precise and haunting. She is without question one of our most important living writers. In this conclusion to her groundbreaking trilogy, Cusk unflinchingly explores the nature of family and art, justice and love, and the ultimate value of suffering. She begins to identify among the people she meets a tension between truth and representation, a fissure that accrues great dramatic force as Kudos reaches a profound and beautiful climax. Within the rituals of literary culture, Faye finds the human story in disarray amid differing attitudes toward the public performance of the creative persona. 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. New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books of 2018 - Amazon Editors' Top 100 of 2018 Rachel Cusk, the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of Outline and Transit, completes the transcendent literary trilogy with Kudos, a novel of unsettling power.
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