![]() ![]() When she published the book Outline in 2014, it seemed like a new breakthrough in the novel form, or at least an imaginative contemporary reckoning. So, too, does Cusk’s writing feel like a bracing throwback. (In her latest novel, Second Place, characters communicate by handwritten letter.) While these figures walk around what is in many ways a recognizably contemporary London or continental Europe, their lack of recourse to the internet and their uncolonized-by-technology headspaces mark them out as creatures living in a different century. An occasional glimpse at Facebook or use of a smartphone aside, Cusk’s characters hardly seem to inhabit anything like the modern world, technologically speaking. ![]() RACHEL CUSK IS ONE of the last great novelists of contemporary life for whom the internet seems to barely exist. ![]()
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