Biography & Memoir· United Kingdom
A Life's Work
by Rachel CuskAggregate Editorial Score75/100
★Women's Prize for Fiction
Published 2001English
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A Life's Work by Rachel Cusk is a landmark work of biography & memoir, first published in 2001. Cusk's unflinching, controversial memoir about the experience of becoming a mother in the first year of her daughter's life. Celebrated for its brutal honesty, it reimagined what the motherhood memoir could be. Themes of motherhood, identity, feminism run through the work. The book has received recognition from Women's Prize for Fiction 2001.
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✍️ Biography & Memoir
True accounts of real lives, told by the subject or a biographer.
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Women's Prize for Fiction
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