Rachel Cusk's Outline is a novel in ten conversations. Spare and stark, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing during an oppressively hot summer in Athens. She leads her students in storytelling exercises. She meets other visiting writers for dinners and discourse. She goes swimming with an elderly Greek bachelor. The people she encounters speak, volubly, about themselves: their fantasies, anxieties, pet theories, regrets, and longings. And through these disclosures, a portrait of the narrator is drawn by contrast, a portrait of a woman learning to face a great loss. Outline is Cusk's finest work yet, and one of the most startling, brilliant, original novels of recent years.

Author Outline

Author · born 1967Rachel Cusk
Original language
English

Editions and translations Outline

Faber & Faber, Limited · 2018print · ISBN 9780571346769
Farrar, Straus and Giroux · 2015print · ISBN 9780374228347
Farrar, Straus & Giroux · 2015print · ISBN 9780374712365

Show 2 more Polish editionsPenguin Random House 2015 and Faber & Faber, Incorporated 2014

Penguin Random House · 2015print · ISBN 9781473523968
Faber & Faber, Incorporated · 2014first edition

Book details Outline

First published: 2014
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 281
Reading time: about 6 hours
Original language: English
ISBN: 9780374228347

Frequently asked questions Outline

How many pages is Outline?

281 pages in the Farrar, Straus and Giroux edition. That’s about 6 hours of reading.

Sources: Open Library (book data, covers). As of November 14, 2026. · Ta strona po polsku