num_pages: 186
description: From the author of the Outline trilogy a fable of human destiny and decline enacted in a closed system of intimate fractured relationships.A woman invites a famed artist to visit the remote coastal region where she lives in the belief that his vision will penetrate the mystery of her life and landscape. His provocative presence provides the frame for a study of female fate and male privilege of the geometries of human relationships and of the struggle to live morally in the intersecting spaces of our internal and external worlds.With its examination of the possibility that art can both save and destroy us Rachel Cusk's Second Place is deeply affirming of the human soul while grappling with its darkest demons.
language: English
title: Second Place
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux