All the while personal details about the narrator remain largely unknown. The narrator also has a series of meetings with other teachers, writers and the students of her class where she prompts them to outline possible stories they could write. Despite a long monologue where he divulges the most intimate details of his failed marriages, family strife and financial struggles, he is only referred to as her neighbour and continues being labelled as such throughout this novel even after several lunches and boat trips she takes with the man. She strikes up a conversation with an older semi-wealthy man in the seat next to hers. Rachel Cusk’s novel “Outline” begins with a narrator (who remains nameless throughout most of the novel) taking a plane to Athens in order to teach a writing course. It’s unsettling and frustrating at first.
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