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A Life?s Work: On Becoming a Mother - Cusk, Rachel

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ISBN
9781841154879
Book Title
A Life's Work: on Becoming a Mother
Publisher
HarperCollins
Publication Year
2002
Type
Textbook
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
197mm
Author
Rachel Cusk
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Topic
Zoology, Opinion of the People
Item Width
130mm
Item Weight
165g
Number of Pages
224 Pages

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The experience of motherhood is an experience in contradiction. It is commonplace and it is impossible to imagine. It is prosaic and it is mysterious. It is at once banal, bizarre, compelling, tedious, comic and catastrophic. To become a mother is to become the chief actor in a drama of human existence to which no one turns up. It is the process by which an ordinary life is transformed unseen into a story of strange and powerful passions, of love and servitude, of confinement and compassion. In this work, novelist Rachel Cusk attempts to tell something of this story, an old story set in a new era of sexual equality. When we no longer know what it is to be a woman, what is it to be a mother? When our expectations are so complex, what can we make of the simple lowliness of caring for a small child? Cusk's story of a year of modern motherhood becomes many stories: a farewell to freedom, sleep and time; a lesson in humility and hard work; a journey to the roots of love; a meditation on madness and mortality; and most of all a sentimental education in babies, books, toddler groups, bad advice, crying, breastfeeding and never being alone.

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Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-13
9781841154879
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Product Key Features

Book Title
A Life's Work: on Becoming a Mother
Author
Rachel Cusk
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Zoology, Opinion of the People
Publication Year
2002
Type
Textbook
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
224 Pages

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Item Height
197mm
Item Width
130mm
Item Weight
165g

Additional Product Features

Title_Author
Rachel Cusk
Topic Area
Children & Family
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom

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