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Arlington Park: A Novel by Rachel Cusk is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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<p>Arlington Park, a modern-day English suburb very much like its American counterparts, is a place devoted to the profitable ordinariness of life. Amidst its leafy avenues and comfortable houses, its residents live out the dubious accomplishments of civilization: material prosperity, personal freedom, and moral indifference. In Arlington Park, men work, women look after children, and people generally do what's expected of them. It's a world awash in contentment but empty of belief, and riven with strange anxieties. How are they to know right from wrong? How should they use their knowledge of other people's sufferings? What is the relationship of politics to their own domestic arrangements? <br><br>Set over the course of a single rainy day, the novel moves from one household to another, and through the passing hours conducts a deep examination of its characters' lives: of Juliet, enraged at the victory of men over women in family life; of Amanda, warding off thoughts of death with obsessive housework; of Solly, who confronts her own buried femininity in the person of her Italian lodger; of Maisie, despairing at the inevitability with which beauty is destroyed; and of Christine, wh

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Author
Rachel Cusk
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published
2008
Language
EN
ISBN
9781429952026
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Fiction
Rating
2.91 / 5 (31 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-13

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