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A Life's Work: On Becoming a Mother by Rachel Cusk (Paperback, 2002)

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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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PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-139781841154879
eBay Product ID (ePID)88208644

Product Key Features

Book TitleA Life's Work: on Becoming a Mother
Number of Pages224 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2002
TopicZoology, Opinion of the People
GenreBiographies & True Stories
TypeTextbook
AuthorRachel Cusk
FormatPaperback

Dimensions

Item Height197 mm
Item Weight165 g
Item Width130 mm

Additional Product Features

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorRachel Cusk
Topic AreaChildren & Family

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