Second Place

Second Place

By Rachel Cusk
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“Digs into the gothic core of family and romantic entanglements…It is not a novel that gladdens the soul. But gladdening the soul has never been Cusk’s project.”

New York Times

An Esquire pick of Best Books of Spring

An Oprah Magazine Pick of the Month

An Amazon Editor’s Top Pick in Fiction

A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice of the Week

Among longlisted titles for Chicago Tribune Best Books of the Year, 2021

A haunting fable of art, family, and fate from the author of the Outline trilogy.

A woman invites a famous artist to use her guesthouse in the remote coastal landscape where she lives with her family. Powerfully drawn to his paintings, she believes his vision might penetrate the mystery at the center of her life. But as a long, dry summer sets in, his provocative presence itself becomes an enigma-and disrupts the calm of her secluded household.

Second Place, Rachel Cusk's electrifying new novel, is a study of female fate and male privilege, the geometries of human relationships, and the moral questions that animate our lives. It reminds us of art's capacity to uplift-and to destroy.

A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux