The first thing to note about Coventry by Rachel Cusk is that it is not a sequel to her (brilliant) trilogy of novels, Outline, Transit, and Kudos. Faber do their best to hint that it might be by following the same design template for the book, both outside and in. On the outside, heavy black modernist text around a detail from a cubist painting, the design rough-hewn and unfinished in contrast to the glassy polish of Cusk’s prose. On the …
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