{"product_id":"life-of-m-27th-aug","title":"Life of M (27th Aug)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the critically-acclaimed author of the Outline trilogy, an irresistible novel of fame, power, beauty and truth -- and a blazing renovation of the formA little while ago, I told the actor M that I was thinking of writing her autobiography. She liked the idea. She's a good sport.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWould you just make it up? she said. M is a film star, and one of the most recognisable faces of our time. With such fame, her life has the appearance of freedom: people are instantly obliging, spaces are altered to accommodate her, time can be rearranged.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor her, it seems, the rules of reality have melted away. Now M has agreed to let a stranger write her biography. Their project will sprawl and expand: to the olive groves and holiday beaches where M spends her days; across hotel rooms, bourgeois facades, film sets; through endless modern cities.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt is hard not to feel ugly next to M, hard not to feel insignificant. But what truths - about the very experience of living - might this proximity allow the writer to briefly capture? And what in the end will M make of their work? In Life of M, Rachel Cusk has again fashioned a new kind of literature. A novel stripped of artifice, it takes our emptiness and fills it with grace.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e'It is truly masterful, her best work so far. I loved it' Vincenzo Latronico\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'[Cusk] is a disciple of the truth, and she helps us to see' Lucy Jones, Independent\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e' Roll up, wave a flag and join the crowds to watch Rachel Cusk continue her relentless march through life' Irish Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Book House (Thame)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55919455863169,"sku":null,"price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0280\/7873\/5421\/files\/9780571399802.jpg?v=1784115341","url":"https:\/\/shop.thebookhousethame.co.uk\/products\/life-of-m-27th-aug","provider":"The Book House Thame","version":"1.0","type":"link"}