Name: PARADE.
Rating: 3.4 (5 reviews)
ISBN: 9780571377947

RACHEL. CUSK

PARADE.

Rachel Cusk

From 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. Her attacker flees, but not before turning around to contemplate her victim, like an artist stepping back from a canvas. When a mother 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’ve 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. Rachel Cusk is a writer and visionary like no other, who turns language upside down to show us our world as it really is.

A Novel

Parade

Captivating from the first page. I was slightly jarred by the trite feminist jousting until reading further and seeing it flipped on its head just like the paintings and diving in deeper and exploring its various corners and depths. An excellent read that I will be returning to again! 

PARADE.

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