# Transit - Paperback

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by **Rachel Cusk** (Author)

**National Bestseller - A Finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize - A Finalist for the Goldsmiths Prize - Long-listed for the International Dublin Literary Award - One of _Time_ Magazine's Top 10 Fiction Books of the Year**

A _New York Times Book Review_ Notable Book - Named a Best Book of the Year by _The Guardian_, _Southern Living_, _NOW_ Magazine, _Commonweal_, _The Washington Independent Review of Books_, the _San Francisco Chronicle_, _The Globe and Mail_, _BOMB_ Magazine, and _The National Post_ (Canada)

The Stunning Second Novel of a Trilogy That Began with _Outline_, One of _New York Times Book Review_'s 10 Best Books of the Year  
  
In the wake of her family's collapse, a writer and her two young sons move to London. The process of this upheaval is the catalyst for a number of transitions--personal, moral, artistic, and practical--as she endeavors to construct a new reality for herself and her children. In the city, she is made to confront aspects of living that she has, until now, avoided, and to consider questions of vulnerability and power, death and renewal, in what becomes her struggle to reattach herself to, and believe in, life.

Filtered through the impersonal gaze of its keenly intelligent protagonist, _Transit_ sees Rachel Cusk delve deeper into the themes first raised in her critically acclaimed novel _Outline_ and offers up a penetrating and moving reflection on childhood and fate, the value of suffering, the moral problems of personal responsibility, and the mystery of change.

In this second book of a precise and short yet epic cycle, Cusk describes the most elemental experiences, the liminal qualities of life. She captures with unsettling restraint and honesty the longing to both inhabit and flee one's life, and the wrenching ambivalence animating our desire to feel real.

### Author Biography

**Rachel Cusk** is the author of three memoirs--_A Life's Work_, _The Last Supper_, and _Aftermath_\--and several novels: _Saving Agnes_, winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award; _The Temporary_; _The Country Life_, which won a SomersetMaugham Award; _The Lucky Ones_; _In the Fold_; _Arlington Park_; _The Bradshaw Variations_; and _Outline._She was chosen as one of _Granta_'s 2003 Best of Young British Novelists. She lives in London.

**Number of Pages:** 272

**Dimensions:** 0.8 x 8.1 x 5.4 IN

**Publication Date:** December 19, 2017

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